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Student Transportation Options

A number of transportation options are available to Lawrence students to assist you in getting off-campus.  Beginning Thursday October 3, Campus Safety will provide transportation for urgent needs and at times listed at the end of these resources:

  • Student Welfare Shopping shuttle:  a campus shopping shuttle is sponsored and run by the LUCC Student Welfare Committee or SWC.  It runs Tuesday & Wednesday (pickup at 6 PM and 7 PM) and Saturday & Sunday (pickup at 1 PM and 2 PM) and does a loop starting from the Wriston turnaround going to Walgreens, Woodman’s, Fox River Mall, Walmart, Goodwill, and (Saturday and Sunday only) the Oriental Foods Market.  Details can be found on posters around campus and in the residence halls or by contacting the Warch Info Desk.
  • Service Shuttle:  this shuttle is sponsored by the LUCC Committee on Community Service and Engagement or CCSE and supported by the Center for Community Engagement and Social Change. This service is for volunteering and community engagement opportunities. It runs on Saturday and Sunday from 9am-5pm, and other times based on scheduling at the following webpage:  http://www.lawrence.edu/students/volunteer/student-orgs/shuttle
  • Alexander Gym shuttle:  the athletics shuttle runs Monday through Friday continuously from 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The shuttle travels from the Wriston Art Center turnaround to Alexander Gymnasium and the Banta Bowl on a continuous cycle during these hours.  Weekend hours depends on team schedules
  • Enterprise CarShare: this program gives students access to a rental vehicle for an hour, a day, overnight, or even on weekends.  The vehicle will be parked on Boldt Plaza by the Warch Campus Center for easy access. More information can be located at http://www.enterprisecarshare.com/us/en/programs/university/lawrence.html/
  • Valley Transit Authority:  Appleton is serviced by the Valley Transit Authority. Bus fares are $2 per ride or $4 for unlimited rides for one day. Learn more or find bus routes online at http://myvalleytransit.com
  • UBER and LYFT:  both ride services operate in the Fox Valley area.  More information is located within their apps.
  • Prescription delivery:  Wellness Services works with an off-campus pharmacy, Hometown Pharmacy 1350 W. College Avenue. Hometown delivers, free of charge, to Wellness Services M-F. Student can have their prescriptions sent directly to Hometown or can drop them off in Wellness Services to be forwarded to the pharmacy. Students can also have their prescriptions transferred to Hometown from another pharmacy. The Health Center’s website has directions for how to do this, http://www.lawrence.edu/students/wellness/health/pharmacy-and-prescriptions.  Some prescriptions may be fillable directly through the Health Center as well.
  • Campus Safety (920-832-6999) can assist you with the following:
    • Safety walks/rides for students who are sick, injured, or feeling unsafe
    • Rides to Walgreens for urgent prescription pickup
    • Rides to medical providers done at the request of Lawrence Health Center staff
    • Downtown shuttle 10pm-3am Thursday-Saturday evenings every half hour from the PAC to Brokaw, Wriston and Trever
    • Rides to Alexander Gymnasium and the Banta Bowl outside athletic shuttle hours

New gender inclusive restrooms

Dear Campus Community,

In the spring of this year, the Lawrence University Common Council (LUCC) passed a Gender Inclusive Facilities Resolution, calling for changing 33-66% of restrooms on campus to gender inclusive (varying by building ability and use). The resolution and results of a recent student poll make it evident that the Lawrence Community is strongly in favor of increasing the number and quality of gender inclusive restroom facilities across campus. In response to the resolution and in support of Lawrence’s commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion at all levels and in all spaces in our community, implementation of these changes has begun.

A baseline review of all restrooms on campus was conducted over the summer showing that eleven academic buildings and residence halls fell short of 33%. Meetings were held with building occupants, and recommendations were made and presented to Cabinet a few weeks ago. The changes in these buildings will involve only signage at this point. This is a fluid process in which retrofits to existing restrooms may happen over time but are not possible now. Signage will depict fixtures in each room such as toilet, urinal, shower and ADA accessibility. Additional temporary signs will be placed at each restroom, indicating the locations of the closest gender binary restrooms. Some signs are already in place, and the remaining signs will be installed on Thursday and Friday, September 26th and 27th, marking the official redesignation of each facility.

Current gender binary restrooms changing to gender inclusive are:

  • Briggs: 2nd and 3rd floor men’s rooms
  • Wellness Center: 2nd and 3rd floor men’s rooms
  • Main Hall: 3rd floor women’s and men’s (1st floor restroom will revert to a women’s facility)
  • Steitz: 3rd floor and lower level men’s
  • Youngchild: 2nd floor men’s
  • Library: 3rd floor women’s and men’s
  • Warch: 2nd floor women’s and men’s during the school year
  • Music Drama: Shattuck lower level, women’s and men’s
  • Brokaw: 3rd floor men’s, 4th floor men’s changes to GI and women’s changes to men’s
  • Sage: 2nd and 3rd floor women’s and men’s
  • Colman North: 1st floor women’s by 126, 1st floor men’s by 121 changes to women’s

Click for the complete list of all gender inclusive restrooms on the Lawrence University campus

Please contact me with any questions or thoughts as we move forward with these changes. We are open to feedback that informs the Lawrence community about any improvement we can make to support an inclusive environment for everyone.

Christopher Lee – Vice President for Finance and Administration

Silent Bike Auction

Located at Facility Services | 235 E. Water Street

Tuesday, July 9 | 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

No bids accepted after 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9. Winners will be notified by Wednesday, July 10. Payment due on day of pick up.

All bikes must be picked up by Thursday, July 11 no later than 3 PM. All unclaimed bikes will be awarded to the next highest bidder.

All bikes are sold “AS IS.”

Summer Construction Update

Summer construction projects starting Monday, June 17th through summer include:

Memorial Hall plaza: the walkway between Memorial Hall and the Wriston Amphitheater will be closed for the summer. Please refer to the map for a recommended detour.

Campus map depicting a detour around Wriston via the path by the library rather than the closed pathway between Memorial Hall and the Wriston Amphitheater.

Music Drama hardscape: due to the replacement of hardscape in front of Music Drama, all south entrances will be closed. Please use the recommended detour provided in the map to access the building from the north.

A campus map depicting a detour around the Music Drama building via Drew St., Washington St., Union St., and College Ave. rather than the walkway between buildings.

Energy Audit of University Buildings

Lawrence has hired Johnson Controls to do an energy audit on campus.  The audit began on Tuesday, May 21, and will continue over the next few weeks. The following buildings are currently being audited:       

Academy of Music
Alex Gym
Briggs Hall
Brokaw Hall
Buchanan-Kiewit Wellness Center
Chapman Hall
Conservatory West 
Facility Services
Main Hall
Memorial Chapel
Memorial Hall
Music Drama
Seeley G. Mudd Library
Shattuck Hall 
Steitz Hall
Warch Campus Center
Wriston Art Center
Youngchild Hall

If you work in one of these 18 buildings, please note that you may see employees of Johnson Controls walking through hallways, rooms, and offices. The University has given them permission to check every room in buildings if needed, and they can be identified by their Johnson Controls lanyard.  While they do need to access every room, they understand and respect that class is still in session and the business of learning is our first priority; they will work around classes, labs, meetings, etc. and will make every effort to avoid disrupting our activities. 

Lighting data loggers (see image below) are also being installed in these buildings for 2-3 weeks. These loggers will be gathering baseline numbers on how and when our buildings are in use, for annual energy savings calculations. Please do not tamper with the loggers.

Data loggers being installed in 18 campus buildings. Please do not tamper with these loggers.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Facility Services.

Looking for a Few Good Furniture Items

Dear Campus community,

Facilities works hard to fill standard furniture requests as expeditiously as possible; however, we don’t want to buy new furniture to fill requests when there is unused furniture around campus. We will post regularly a list of furniture needs in the LU Insider. Please review the list to check if you have any unused items in classrooms, offices or lounge areas that match what is needed.

Thank you!

Current list of furniture needs:

ItemSize/finish
Conference round or square30″ – 36″d
Conference round36″ – 40″d
Metal cabinet24″w x 30″ – 40″h
Small bookshelfnot higher than 20″
Guest chairs (2)matching pair

Brokaw Registrar Construction Notice

– From Friday, Nov. 2nd through Friday, December 21st, the registrar office will be under construction. The south entrance to the registrar will be closed. All other entrances to the building will be open. The registrar office will be open and working out of the Brokaw Hall conference room 102.

– Construction will start at 9:00 a.m. while classes are still in session.

–  On Wednesday, Nov. 14th, the heat will be turned off in the entire building from 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. This is expected to have limited impact on the temperature of the rooms inside.

– Asbestos remediation will occur in the registrar area November 8th and 9th. The area will be sealed to prevent dust transfer between abatement area and occupied areas. The area will undergo an air quality test on November 10th before it is unsealed.

Please call facilities at 832-6602 with any questions.