The next All Staff Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 10, from 9:00-10:00 am in the Somerset Room in the Warch Campus Center. Coffee and snacks will be provided.
Please submit questions for President Burstein to staff_connection@lawrence.edu.
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Nominate students to serve on Honor Council
It’s that time of the year again: the Lawrence University Honor Council is now recruiting new members for the 2018-2019 academic year, and your nominations form an important part of the process. Since we value a council that represents the student body at Lawrence, we are committed to ensuring that we have a diverse council. Please nominate any peers who you think are responsible, good listeners, who work well in a group, and have well-developed analytical thinking skills. A large and diverse nomination pool will strengthen the selection process and allow for the continuity of the Honor System in coming years.
Any rising sophomore, junior, or senior who has not been found in violation of the Honor Code or Judicial Code, and who is committed to the Honor System, is eligible for membership. To nominate a student for the Honor Council, please email their name to jere.wickens@lawrence.edu by Friday, April 13th. Feel free to list several names.
Look out for information tables in Warch Campus Center this week.
Sincerely,
Maren Dahl and Willa Dworschack
Honor Council Selection Co-Chairs
Nominate Students to serve on Judicial Board
Judicial Board is accepting nominations until 9 a.m. Monday, April 16th, for next year’s Judicial Board. Any rising sophomore, junior, senior, or 5th-year senior may be nominated.
The purpose and functions of the Judicial Board include:
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- Adjudicating cases when a student/group is accused of violating general conduct as defined by LUCC legislation.
- Deciding upon appropriate disciplinary action if a student/group is found in violation of LUCC legislation.
- Educating the Lawrence Community about the University’s disciplinary system and Social Code as described in the Lawrence University Student Handbook.
If you know someone that you think would be an excellent student to serve on the Lawrence University Judicial Board, please submit that name to Dean Curt Lauderdale or by emailing deanofstudents@lawrence.edu . All nominees will be notified and asked to attend an informational session to learn more about the responsibilities of a Judicial Board member and to inform them of next steps in the selection process.
Sincerely,
Hailey Bomar
Judicial Board Chair
Pizza with Police
oin the Office of Diversity & Inclusion for informal conversations with Police Chief Todd Thomas and Campus Liaison Captain Polly Olson on April 19th, 2018. Discuss current issues, concerns, and community policing in Appleton.
Location: Memorial Hall – Room 114
Time: 5 – 7 PM
April Staff Monthly
Please check out the April edition of the Staff Monthly!
As always, please submit any questions you would like answered to the staff_connection@lawrence.edu email, provide recognition to your colleagues by emailing humanresources@lawrence.edu or participate in the monthly photo contest but emailing your photo to staff_connection@lawrence.edu.
Staff Connections Committee
Piece of the Pie: Spring Wellness Initiative
What’s a good way to start off the nice spring weather than with ways to feel better overall? We will help start you on that path to spring! Participate in 6 of our wellness activities that we have listed and enter for your chance to win a prize! Program Starts Monday March 26th and goes till April 28th! Pick your piece of the pie sheet up at the front desk in the wellness center!
- Yoga Class
- TRX Class
- Dietician
- One-time Events
- Mind Spa
- 30min workout
- Fit Bit Rental
- Soccer
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Massage
- Healthy Vikings
- Intramurals
Final Dance Artists Series of the school year – bkSOUL
bkSOUL is the final guest company in the Lawrence University Dance Series this year. Don’t miss this multi-disciplinary performance collective.
There are FOUR ways to interact with bkSOUL:
1. “ILLEGIBLE” performance – Friday, April 13th 7:00pm in Esch/Hurvis, WCC
FB event link and LU Dance Series link here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/205185860238173/
https://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/performance_series/dance_series
Read below for more details.
2. Open community Dance class – Thursday, April 12th 9:00-10:50am in Esch studio, WCC (contact Margaret Paek for more details)
3. Open community Musicians in Movement creative class – Thursday April 12th 2:30-4:20pm in Esch studio, WCC (contact Margaret Paek for more details)
4. Open Music & Movement Family Jam – Saturday, April 14th, 10:30am-12:00pm, in Esch studio, WCC.
FB event link here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1703525266392934/
bkSOUL was founded in 2001 by Dr. grace shinhae jun as a space to explore the relationship between Hip Hop culture and modern dance, debuting with the evening length work Women Warriors in Love & Hip Hop. The company began as a bi-coastal company (San Diego – Brooklyn), teaching and performing at various venues in Southern California, Brooklyn, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Indiana, San Francisco, and Mexico. In 2006, bkSOUL deepened its roots in San Diego and began collaborating with Collective Purpose (Ant Black, Kendrick Dial and Rudy Francisco), blending together movement, poetry, and live music to center on issues of social justice and communities of color through a Hip Hop framework. This award-winning performance company has created six evening length works: The Movement (2007), Hip Hop Saved My Life (2009), Love H.E.R. (2013), Illegible (2015), Still Moving (2016), The Lioness (2017), and received “Best Musical Performance” (2016) and “Outstanding Performance” (2017) for their work at the San Diego International Fringe Festival. In 2016, celebrating the 10 years of working together the dancers, the poets, and musicians fully merged to perform solely as the conscious performance group bkSOUL. As educators, mothers, fathers, activists, and artists, bkSOUL is committed to education through the arts, to courageous insight and truth, and to helping strengthen our justice movement today.
Directors: Ant Black, grace shinhae jun, Jesse Mills, Christopher Rice-Wilson
Poets: Ant Black, Kendrick Dial, Miesha Rice-Wilson
Musicians: Shivon Carreño, Loren Dempster, Jesse Mills
Dancers: Lauren Dockweiler, Jessica Gilmore, grace shinhae jun, Ian Isles
Description of their performance work – “ILLEGIBLE”
Legibility – Having a quality that is clear to read.
To be legible is to be easily understood. Black bodies are most legible when they are policed, incarcerated, and subject to surveillance. The alternative to this presentation is through comedic, grotesque, or outrageous caricatures. These legible images of Black men and women reflect the longstanding racial prejudices and the way in which these bodies are dealt with in every institution in the United States.
To be illegible is to have qualities that make it difficult to be read, comprehended, and understood by others. Black bodies are illegible when they are not complicit in their role of the public imagination. To be illegible is to fully embrace the complexity of Blackness in a country that does more forgetting than remembering what we have done to Black bodies.
Illegible is a collaborative project that addresses the acrimony and injustice around the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Through the culture of hip-hop, the scholarship of Mark Anthony Neal, and the narratives of each performer, bkSOUL explores the meaning of illegibility with poetry, music, and dance.
There will be a post-performance talk.
Heavy topic, but family-friendly (meaning that there is no foul language, and children are welcome.)
Free!
Supported by the LU Dance Series and
the following Lawrence University student-run clubs/LUCC:
As I Am
Alianza
Black Student Union
Dance Team
Deep Listening Club
LUNA
Melee Modern Dance Club
Lawrence as a Living Laboratory
Do you have ideas on how to make our campus more sustainable?
Grant funding is available for students to submit proposals for sustainability related projects. Micro-grants averaging $2,500 can support research, internships, class projects or student group initiatives. We invite you to help in creating a list of relevant projects for students to consider. The Sustainability Steering Committee will work to raise awareness and seek student support!
Examples of projects include:
-Invasive species removal
-Light bulb/fixture upgrades
-Bottle refill stations
-Public transportation assessment
Learn more here: http://www.lawrence.edu/info/green_roots/student-sustainability-fund
Questions and project ideas can be sent to Kelsey McCormick at kelsey.m.mccormick@lawrence.edu or 920-832-7404
Beginning Yoga Wednesdays 4:30-5pm and Thursdays 12-12:30pm
Always wanted to learn yoga poses before taking a full class? Need some individual attention to improve your yoga. Come to beginning yoga Wednesdays from 4:30-5pm or Thursdays from 12-12:30 in the campus center. Wear comfortable clothes and mats are provided. Sponsored by WELLU
First Spring Term Office Hours with Kimberly Barrett on April 12th
Dr. Kimberly Barrett, Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion is hosting open office hours. The first session of open office hours for Spring Term is being held on April 12th, 2018. Drop by Sampson House, 2nd floor and share ideas, concerns, comments, etc. Appointments are not required, people will be accommodated on a first come-first serve basis.
