University Announcements

Check out the amazing LU winter apparel available for purchase at Kate’s Corner Store!

• M-F 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
• Sa-Su 12-7 p.m.

LUgge is inspired by a Danish and Norwegian word, Hygge (pronounced “hoo-ga”), which describes a feeling of coziness and contentment. It is associated with enjoying the simple things in life, such as spending time with one’s family and friends, relaxing in comfortable surroundings, and indulging in small pleasures like good food and drink. 

Instead of shying away from the winter, why not celebrate the unique beauty and fun activities the season offers? Here are some events that let you truly embrace the season.

Visit lawrence.edu for the most up-to-date schedule of LUgge-related events!

Storytime
Feb. 8 | 7-7:45 p.m. | Spirit Space

Join us for a cozy evening of stories, cocoa, and cookies. Please bring a short story that you love, or just come to listen! All are welcome.

CCE Winter Olympics
Feb. 12-17

The CCE Winter Service Olympics is a new winter event aimed at helping Lawrence students participate in volunteer-related and community engagement activities while competing in friendly, purpose-driven events throughout the week. Students can compete in teams (up to 10 students per team) and earn points through participation in daily activities and events, and the three winning teams will be crowned as CCE Olympic champions.

• Feb. 12 | Civics & Society
  Intro to Voting Tabling | 2-5 p.m.
  Vikings Vote Sessions | 12:30-1:30 p.m. & 7:30-8:30 p.m.
  Writing to your Reps Workshop | 5-6:30 p.m.
• Feb. 13 | Fair Housing & Hunger
  Ethical Volunteer Training | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
  Self-Care Kit Making for Senior Citizens | 7-9 p.m.
• Feb. 14 | Public Health & Wellness
  Sledding Relay Race | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
  Cards & Cocoa | 6-7 p.m.
  Wellness BINGO | 7:30-8:30 p.m.
• Feb. 15 | Child Advocacy/Environment & Sustainability
  Pledge for Our Planet | 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
  Volunteering & Your Career | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
  Friendship Bracelet Making | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
• Feb. 16 | Arts & Education/VITAL/First of Many
  Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Trivia | 5-7:30 p.m.
  Letters for Learners | 5-7:30 p.m.
  Paint like Pi-CAT-sso | 5-7:30 p.m.
• Feb. 17 | Catered Lunch Olympic Ceremony
  1:30-2:30 p.m.

Cozy Comfort Rice Pack
Feb. 23 | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | Warch 325-Pusey Room

Create your own rice heat packs! Can be heated in the microwave to help soothe body aches.

A Winter Pause
Feb. 28 | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | Warch 324

Take a break from the winter term at our annual Winter Pause! Enjoy food, refreshments and several fun winter-themed activities! Prizes can be won!

Countdown to Spring
Feb. 28 | 4-6 p.m. | Spirit Space

Storytime
March 4 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Spirit Space

Join us for a cozy evening of stories, cocoa, and cookies. Please bring a short story that you love, or just come to listen! All are welcome.

Trivia LIX will begin at 10:00:37 p.m. Central Time on Friday, Jan. 26 and end around midnight on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2023.

The contest will be streamed live on Twitch.

Participants can also join the official Trivia 59 Discord Server.

Additional resources can be found on Linktree.

Registration

Official registration will take place at 8 p.m. on the first night of the contest (Jan. 26). Latecomers can register throughout the contest but will be at a points disadvantage.

To register, a team representative will call the appropriate phone line. A Trivia Master will answer and take the team’s name and a team representative’s contact information (name, phone number, and email). The teams will be assigned a team number–on-campus team numbers will start at 1, and off-campus numbers will start at 101.

Teams should use the registration period to find out if they have a significant delay in their signal. The official time for Trivia is time.gov.

Phone numbers

• Head Master Phone Line: (920) 419-TRIV a.k.a. (920) 419-8748
• Complaint Phone Line: (920) 419-6727
• On-Campus Phone Line: (920) 832-7140
• Off-Campus Phone Line: (920) 832-7148

Order LIX Trivia merch!

January 12 – March 8

Cori Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Leech Gallery 

What is an identity, but a story of self? As an artist with cultural ties to multiple empires, I am unwinding the mythologies of United States and Japanese nationalism that I’ve been taught, and am weaving new stories to tell about myself and my people. In the diaspora, I both yearn towards the past, longing for a stronger connection to my ancestors, and towards the future, desperately envisioning a future where me and my communities are rooted deeply enough in order to withstand the coming climate hardship. In this tension between past and future, I paint yōkai, the strange spirit creatures of Japanese myth. 

Yōkai are not exactly ghost, or monster, or spirit, but a wide umbrella category holding all of these and more. I am drawn to these creatures’ tendency to inhabit in between space, and I paint them to help me release rage, evoke cycles, channel joy, and remember what’s been lost. 

These paintings were originally commissioned as a set of 16 chapter headers for my sister Jami Nakamura Lin’s debut memoir The Night Parade (2023), published by Mariner HarperCollins. My goal in illustrating The Night Parade was to depict yōkai that had escaped the idealized, frozen concept of ancient Japan, and had re-rooted in the complexities of my second-and-fourth-generation Taiwanese, Japanese, and Okinawan American experience. Cori Nakamura Lin –  Artist Statement

Kayla Bauer, The End of Somewhere

Hoffmaster Gallery

The End of Somewhere uses San Francisco as a vehicle to explore multiplicities of identity, memory, and history; Kayla Bauer works with photography, text, and found imagery to create fragmentary narratives that may or may not be rooted in reality. Bauer is currently completing a Ph.D at UW-Madison and her MFA thesis exhibition, I Left My Heart…, was awarded the 2022 Russell and Paula Panczenko Prize.

Organic / Inorganic

Kohler Gallery

An exhibition of sculptural works curated around Senga Nengudi’s multi-part A.C.Q. (Air Conditioning Queen), on loan from the Art Bridges Foundation. A.C.Q. is a mixed-media installation, composed of found metal refrigerator parts and donated second-hand nylon pantyhose. This juxtaposition of the rigid-industrial-abstract and the elastic-intimate-human give us a means to think through ideas about gender and resilience. Sculpture and installation pieces by Monty Little, Anna Campbell, and Callie Kiesow present similarly startling juxtapositions, with isolated elements of the human body paired with and disrupted by pattern and abstraction; they also offer expansive ways of thinking about how these formal cues signal larger ideas about identity and survival.

Calling all trivia buffs and creative minds!

Want to showcase your artistic flair and earn some extra points for Trivia LIX?

Announcing the Merch Design Submission Contest! Send in your trivia-themed designs. This is your chance to leave a mark on GMTC history, and of course, snag points for your team.

• Submit your original, safe-for-work designs related to trivia. Uniqueness is the name of the game!
  • Format matters! Send your artwork in PNG or JPEG form to greatmidwesttrivia@gmail.com.
  • A transparent background? That’s the cherry on top!
  • Feel free to submit as many designs, but remember, points are capped at 3 submissions per team.
• Points and prizes:
  • 10 points for each submission (because trying is half the battle).
  • 20 points if your design is chosen.
  • The creators of the top 3 designs will receive a shirt featuring their masterpiece. Wear it with pride!
• The deadline to submit your designs is Sunday, Dec. 10 at 11:59 p.m. CST.

Teaching Communication at LU

Monday, Nov. 20 | 1:45-3 p.m.
Warch Campus Center 325 – Pusey Room

Join faculty and staff to discuss an article on ‘quietness’ in the classroom, share challenges in teaching writing, performance, and speaking in our classrooms and studios, and share the purposes of teaching communicative practices in the liberal arts.

by Plautus, translated by David Christenson

Thursday, Oct. 26 | 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 27 | 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 28 | 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

Directed by Kathy Privatt

A comedy set in EpiDAMnus, which is a h*ll of a place to live with some d*mn screwed up values that seem awfully familiar!  Oh, and some mistaken identity issues too.

Learn more and secure your seats

Tickets:

• Adults – $15
• Seniors – $8
• ALL high school and college students (with valid ID) – FREE (only available in-person at the Box Office)
• Lawrence faculty and staff (with valid ID) – FREE (only available in-person at the Box Office)
• Children under 3 – FREE

Tickets go on sale two weeks before the first performance date. You can purchase tickets:

• In person! The Box Office is open 1-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and one hour prior to performances. The Box Office accepts cash, check or credit card ($1 credit card fee).
• Online! Visit lawrence.edu to make your purchase. ($4 handling fee)
• Over the phone! Call the Box Office at 920-832-6749. ($4 handling fee)

The Lawrence Loop, Lawrence’s free campus shuttle service, has added a stop at Alex Gym!

This route runs from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, on a continuous loop with stops at:

• Hiett Hall
• Wriston turnaround
• Banta Bowl
• Alexander Gym
• 1025 E South River Street

The shuttle is accessible and should arrive at each stop approximately every 20 minutes.