Monday April 25th, Main Hall 201, 4:30pm, “Dying well: A bioethicist’s notes from a global pandemic” by Yolonda Wilson, Departments of Health Care Ethics, Philosophy, and African American Studies, St. Louis University
Tuesday April 26th, Main Hall 201, 4:30pm “What is a 7? The Phenomenology of Pain and Assessing Another’s Experience” by Yolonda Wilson, Departments of Health Care Ethics, Philosophy, and African American Studies, St. Louis University
Purchase tickets to this livestream performance at www.lawrence.edu/music-arts/box-office/tickets or call the box office at 920-832-6749. Tickets can also be purchased at the Lawrence University Box Office, located in the Music Drama center, at 420 East College Ave, Appleton, The box office will be open Monday through Saturday from 1:00pm until 6:00pm and an hour prior to events.
Ticket price: $10 + processing fee
This livestream is available to view April 22- April 26, 2022
This production and film are dedicated to the memory of John Koopman who began the opera program at Lawrence University and whose loss is felt by the community. We, the opera studies ensemble, stand on his legacy.
The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare
Music by Julian Grant | Libretto by Mark Campbell
Directed by
Copeland Woodruff
Produced by
Iris Designs
Music Director/Piano/MIDI orchestration – Kristin Roach
MIDI orchestration – Darrin Newhart
Live Orchestra Conductor – Michael Clayville
Sound Engineer – Brent Hauer
Technical Director – Austin Rose
Dr. Robert Knox – Luke Honeck
Dr. Ferguson – David Womack
William Burke – Max Muter
William Hare – Baron Lam
Helen McDougal – Emily Austin
Margaret Hare – Colleen Bur
Donald – Zachary Adams
Abigail Simpson – Grace Drummond
Daft Jamie – Jack Murphy
Mary Paterson – Meghan Burroughs
Madge Docherty – Emma Milton
Flute – Carmen Magestro
Viola – Gabe Hartmark
Bassoon – Jessica Kleebauer
Cello – Ernesto Bañuelos
Trombone – Omar Tlatelpa-Nieto
Bass – Ali Remondini
Percussion – Spencer Bunch-Hotaling
Harp – Rachel Overby
Assistant Director – Morgan Donahue
Stage Manager – Tommy Dubnicka
Assistant Stage Managers – Emmeline Sipe, Mae Capaldi, Sam Victor
The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) warns consumers to be aware of electrical dangers associated with severe storms and the resulting floods and power outages.
Deaths and injuries during the summer months are frequently caused by post-storm electrical hazards. The high winds, extreme rains, and flooding caused by hurricanes and tornadoes present many unique dangers. ESFI offers consumers important advice about how to help prevent electrically related deaths, injuries, and property loss by taking a few precautions during and after severe storms and other natural disasters.
While we can’t prevent natural disasters, we can ensure our businesses are electrically safe before and after the storm. Practicing electrical safety and being prepared can lead to a smooth recovery and an opportunity to renovate the electrical efficiency of your business.
In the Event of a Natural Disaster
After the Storm
Prepare for Future Storms
Water damaged equipment that must be replaced
Water damaged equipment that may be reconditioned
ESFI has teamed with the National Electrical Manufacturers Association to provide a detailed explanation of what electrical components can be reconditioned and which need to be replaced.
A series of Earth Week events are being planned for next week, coordinated by the LUCC Sustainability Committee. April 22 is Earth Day. Among the highlights:
Tuesday, April 19:
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Rain, sleet, snow, and fog complicate highway transportation, making driving conditions hazardous and often causing worse-than-normal congestion.
Drivers should use extreme caution and slow their speed when the road is wet or icy. Avoid any sudden changes in direction when conditions are poor. If you see a slippery when wet road sign during poor driving conditions, start slowing down.
Rain and Flooding
Rain causes wet pavement, which reduces vehicle traction and maneuverability. Heavy rain also reduces visibility distance. Rain and wet pavement increase crash risk as well.
Most weather-related crashes occur on wet pavement and during rainfall.
A critical factor affecting an operator’s capability is perception-reaction time:
Perception is the individual’s recognition of a hazard, or the need to react. Reaction is the individual’s ability to respond to avoid the hazard.
Perception-reaction time can determine whether a crash will occur, or not. The shorter the perception-reaction time, the sooner the operator provides input to the vehicle and starts maneuvering to avoid the hazard.
The vehicle continues moving at the same speed toward the hazard during the time it takes the driver to perceive and react. Perception-reaction time becomes critical as speed increases. At slower speeds, the vehicle does not travel much distance during the time it takes the driver to react.
At higher speeds, the vehicle will travel more distance during the same time interval placing it closer to the hazard before the driver starts providing the necessary inputs. Therefore, even fractions of a second are important.
Vehicles moving at higher speeds have more momentum than vehicles at lower speeds. More braking force must be applied to vehicles traveling at high speeds:
• At 20 mph, the average vehicle will travel an additional 18 feet after the brakes are applied for a total stopping distance of 62 feet
• At 50 mph, the vehicle will travel an additional 111 feet for a total stopping distance of 221 feet
• At 80 mph, the vehicle will travel an additional 284 feet for a total stopping distance of 460 feet
When your tires are in contact with the road, they create friction which directly affects the handling and stopping capabilities of your vehicle. The amount of friction created can vary between different types of roads, weather conditions and the amount of tread remaining on your tires.
Most passenger car tires begin with 9 or 10/32nds of usable tread; light truck tires and winter tires may have more. The amount of tread is especially important on wet roads, as the tread grooves help your tires displace water to stay in contact with the road. You can see how tread wear impacts stopping distance illustrated below.
Hazards that can be avoided at low speeds may be unavoidable at higher speeds.
Human reaction time does not change for higher speeds. Higher speed increases crash severity. When the driver’s capability is overwhelmed by higher speeds, the chances of a collision are increased. The higher speed also increases the chances of death or serious injury.
The extent of crash damage depends upon the amount of energy present. The faster a vehicle is moving, the more kinetic energy it takes into a crash. The amount of kinetic energy increases greatly with only slight increases in speed. As the amount of energy increases, the chances of a fatality increase. A collision at 60 mph is 50 percent more likely to result in a fatality than one at 45 mph. A collision at 70 mph is four times more likely to result in a fatality than a crash at 45 mph.
Sources: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/core_participant_manual-smd-2018.pdf.; https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/novemberdecember-2004/another-rain-delay ; https://www.discounttire.com/learn/stopping-distance
An Innovative New Music Event
Friday, April 15, at 8 p.m. in Lawrence Memorial Chapel.
For Tickets, please visit the Lawrence University Box office or call 920-832-6749.
Audience members will be required to be masked at all times during performances in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel and Harper Hall. Guests are strongly encouraged to have received the COVID-19 vaccine before attending an event on campus.
Formed in 1992, the Bang on a Can All-Stars are recognized worldwide for their ultra-dynamic live performances and recordings of today’s most innovative music. Freely crossing the boundaries between classical, jazz, rock, world and experimental music, this six-member amplified ensemble has consistently forged a distinct category-defying identity, taking music into uncharted territories. Performing each year throughout the U.S. and internationally, the All-Stars have shattered the definition of what concert music is today.
Together, the All-Stars have worked in unprecedented close collaboration with some of the most important and inspiring musicians of our time, including Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, Burmese circle drum master Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Tan Dun, DJ Spooky, and many more. The group’s celebrated projects include their landmark recordings of Brian Eno’s ambient classic Music for Airports and Terry Riley’s In C, as well as live performances with Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Don Byron, Iva Bittova, Thurston Moore, Owen Pallett and others. The All-Stars were awarded Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year and have been heralded as “the country’s most important vehicle for contemporary music” by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Current and recent project highlights include “In C”, a new dance collaboration with Sasha Waltz & Guests based on Terry Riley’s minimalist classic; Dance Party, a brand new multi-media concert pairing composers and choreographers; a new recording of legendary composer/performer Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME; Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power for Bang on a Can All-Stars and orchestra, a multi media concert exploring the sonic landscape of the late 1960s; Road Trip, an immersive and visually stunning concert collaboratively-composed by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe to commemorate the 30+ year journey of Bang on a Can; the touring performances and recording of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize winning Anthracite Fields for the All-Stars and guest choir; Julia Wolfe’s acclaimed Steel Hammer, plus a moving theatrically staged collaboration with SITI Company and director Anne Bogart; Field Recordings, a major multi-media project and CD/DVD now featuring 30 commissioned works by Tyondai Braxton, Mira Calix, Anna Clyne, Bryce Dessner, Florent Ghys, Michael Gordon, Jóhann Jóhannsson, David Lang, Christian Marclay, Steve Reich, Todd Reynolds, Julia Wolfe, and more; the Lincoln Center Festival 2017 world premiere of Cloud River Mountain, a collaboration featuring Chinese superstar singer Gong Linna; the world premiere performance and recording of Steve Reich’s 2×5 including a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall, and much more. With a massive repertoire of works written specifically for the group’s distinctive instrumentation and style of performance, the All-Stars have become a genre in their own right. The All-Stars record on Cantaloupe Music and have released past recordings on Sony, Universal and Nonesuch.
If you are a recently returned off-campus programs student, you are invited to join us for the next Re-Entry Reflection Workshop, which will be all about what comes next after study abroad. Wednesday, April 20, from 5-7 p.m. in the Diversity and Intercultural Center. Dinner will be provided!
Please let us know you are coming by filling out our RSVP form.
Whether you are struggling to talk to others about your program, wondering how to apply your experience to life at home or position it for a future job search, or just want to figure out how to go on another program, we will have answers for you.
This workshop is hosted by Off-Campus Programs and Spiritual and Religious Life. We’ll be joined by Claire Kervin, Fellowships and Funded Opportunities; Garrett Singer, Community Engagement and Social Change; and Amy Gruen, Peer Educator with the Career Center.
Judy Heumann, a disability rights advocate who worked in both the Clinton and Obama administrations before launching her own business, will deliver a virtual Q&A at 12:30 p.m. April 8.
The Zoom session is open to the public; there will be live captioning. All participants must register for the Zoom session at this link: https://forms.office.com/r/S2svG440S2. Once registered, they will receive a Zoom invite.
A viewing party will be held in the Nathan Marsh Pusey Room in Warch Campus Center. All attendees are asked to wear a mask.
Heumann is a lifelong advocate for the rights of disabled people. She has been instrumental in the development and implementation of legislation, such as Section 504, the Individuals with Education Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Her memoir, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, co-authored by Kristen Joiner, was published in 2020. She also is featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, directed by James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham. Heumann produces a podcast called The Heumann Perspective, which features members from the disability community.
Heumann serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Humanity and Inclusion, Human Rights Watch, United States International Council on Disability, and Save the Children. She has 20 years of nonprofit experience working with various disability organizations, including being a founding member of the Berkeley Center for Independent Living. Prior to starting the Judith Heumann LLC, she served in the administrations of President Clinton and President Obama.
The Q&A is being presented by LUDWiG (Lawrence University Disability Working Group).
SOUP Cordially Invites you to The President’s Ball, Saturday, April 9th in Somerset, 3rd Floor of Warch, 8:00 pm – midnight. Formal Attire. Live Music, Dancing, 360 Photo booth, Cake and a Mocktail Bar. Step into the Forest….
