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FEATURes OP/ED A & E SPORTS Lawrence alums pursue Opposing viewpoints on Jazz Faculty Quartet Men’s basketball music ed. in Abu Dhabi SOPA legislation debuts in Harper beats Monmouth >> page 5 >> page 7 >> page 9 >> page 10 FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012 THE LAWRENTIAN Vol. CXXIX, No. 11 Lawrence University's student newspaper since 1884 www.Lawrentian.com Lawrence community volunteers in honor of MLK Fanny Lau during a summer break or through Staff Writer a “gap year” service opportunity ____________________________________ after graduation. The event also invited professors to hear Monica Monday, Jan. 16 Lawrence stu- Rico, associate professor of history dents and faculty participated in and director of Engaged Learning the Martin Luther King Day of give a faculty development work- Service sponsored by the Volunteer shop on how to incorporate ser- and Community Service Center, vice-learning into the course cur- the Office of Engaged Learning and riculum. the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Students then filed into the Since ten Lawrentians came Esch and Hurvis Rooms to be together five years ago on Martin debriefed by Volunteer Events Luther King Day to serve the Coordinator and senior Susannah Appleton community, the atten- Maiken. Maiken, who began volun- dance of this entirely student-run teering her freshman year, said that event has steadily increased. This it was her hope that “[Lawrentians] year, Director of the Volunteer and will become inspired to volunteer Community Service Center Kristi not just today, or in the next two Hill registered over 200 Lawrence days, but in the rest of [their] life students and faculty to help with at Lawrence and beyond.” maintenance at Heckrodt Wetland Professor of History and Robert Reserve, work with the Housing S. French Professor of American Partnership of the Fox Cities or Studies Jerald Podair then took teach diversity to over 700 elemen- the podium to speak of King’s cru- tary students. sade against economic injustice. Said Hill, “We wanted to meet Though King was well known for the need for Lawrence students to Photo by Emma Moss fighting for racial equality, he was serve all in one day so we started also persistent towards the end of tips for connecting with young Delta fraternity brothers. “I’m just enjoyed the celebration, saying to create a diversity curriculum for his life in leading the fight for the kids, assuring Lawrentians that glad to be making a difference,” afterwards, “I thought she was [elementary and middle school] rights to “income, education, hous- “enthusiasm is contagious” and he stated. fantastic and the most energetic students back in September.” ing and doctors.” “kids think college kids are the As Lawrentians returned from 82-year-old I’ve ever seen.” In addi- The day was comprised of After Podair, Associate coolest people ever.” their respective volunteer sites, tion to the keynote address, the three components: to learn, serve Professor of Psychology Beth Ann After the speakers, everyone they proceeded to the Lawrence annual Jane LaChapelle McCarty and celebrate. The day began with Haines revealed the results of headed to their respective volun- Memorial Chapel to be a part of Unity in Diversity Award was pre- a presentation by a representative research by 25 Lawrentians and 9 teer sites to serve. Kohler and the 21st annual community cel- sented by Toward Community from the Community Foundation other professors in the area on the Draheim Residence Hall Director ebration of Martin Luther King, to an individual in the Appleton for the Fox Valley Region, Inc. positive impact after-school pro- Chris Conrad taught diversity pro- Jr. Dr. Dorothy Cotton, the only community who had made great about the recent results of the grams had on kids’ self-efficacy, gramming at Roosevelt Middle female member to work along- strides in bring people in the com- Leading Indicators for Excellence problem solving skills, academic School and found the experience side King for over a decade during munity together. Study. The study revealed the over- achievement and more. Another to be more enriching than he antic- the Civil Rights Movement, deliv- The Martin Luther King Day all quality of life in the Fox Cities research project also determined ipated. “The kids’ stance against ered a keynote address entitled of Service was started in 1994 and opportunities for community the key elements of any success- bullying and discrimination were “Martin Luther King, Jr.: This Life by Congress and has been led engagement projects. ful after-school programs includ- super inspiring,” said Conrad. and Legacy.” Cotton enthusiastical- by the Corporation for National Volunteer orientations and ing strong leadership and staff. Junior Tanner DeBettencourt ly encouraged youth to “do some- and Community Service as part of workshops for multiple organiza- Because Lawrentians going to saw the day as a great opportu- thing, anything” for their commu- United We Serve, the President’s tions were held to provide infor- elementary schools to volunteer nity to help out the community, nities because “small acts of kind- national call to service initiative. mation to students looking to vol- would be a part of the after-school in addition to bonding with his ness add up.” unteer throughout the school year, staff for a day, Haines gave some baseball teammates and Delta Tau Sophomore Dana Schot Lawrentians assist with COTS urban farm project Molly-Judith Wilson COTS, an organization commit- people working together. This risen 48 percent since 2006, and As COTS employee Jakobson Staff Writer ted to ending homelessness in the is the type of atmosphere that the leading cause of homelessness noted, The second goal of the ____________________________________ Fox River Valley, raised a reported Riverview Gardens hopes to foster. is unemployment. Riverview Gardens Project is to Appleton non-profit $1.7 million from private individu- Blair, the current head of SLUG A project like the Riverview “change community perceptions Community Outreach Temp-orary als and combined this with anoth- house, explained that the first of Farm would supply the homeless about homelessness.” This will Services recently purchased the er $1 million loan in order to buy the three main goals of COTS is to with transferable skills — skills happen “by having community bankrupt Riverview Country Club the property. help the homeless by providing job that, as Blair explains, “you can member volunteers working side- with the intention of transforming Located on the south side of training. COTS has aligned itself take and use at different job sites, by-side with the homeless.” the property into an urban farm the Fox River in the heart of down- with the Fox Valley Continuum of such as responsibility, accountabil- Jakobson continued, “These called Riverview Gardens. town, the Riverview Country Club Care, a program designed to get ity, productivity and the chance are people that are really no dif- Three Lawrentians are current- property includes around 73 acres the homeless in the Fox Valley to interact with different types ferent than the rest of our com- ly involved with the project as of woodlands in addition to a club- back on their feet, and other non- of people.” These skills would munity, who've just had a series of well. Current SLUG house head house. profit organizations in order to be honed through activities such ill-advised choices and/or negative and junior Hava Blair interns at The management of the solve the growing homeless prob- as the clearing of trails, grounds experiences. The [homeless] people COTS, while Oren Jakobson ‘11 property will take place through lem in Appleton. maintenance and constructing and we've worked with had educations and Cindy Sahotsky ‘84 are both ServiceWorks, a program that According to the Appleton LIFE gardening in hoop-houses, such and professional backgrounds as employed at COTS in different began at COTS a few years ago, Study, a survey taken in Appleton as the one SLUG constructed at which focuses on small teams of every five years, homelessness has Lawrence. capacities. See Urban farm on page 2 SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Hi: 23°F Hi: 31°F Lo: 19°F Lo: 20°F 5-DAY 5-DAY Source: weatherbug.com WEATHER Partly Cloudy Snow Showers FORECAST Partly Cloudy Cloudy Partly Cloudy THE LAWRENTIAN 2 NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012 Conservatory launches Conservatory2 summer internship program Abigail Schubach “[This program] allows con- opera program, which will take and concerts. The facility is locat- might be physicists — and we Staff Writer servatory students to go beyond place in the city of Arezzo, Italy. ed among the foothills of Givat don’t want to cut them out.” ____________________________________ the walls of the Con, the prac- Javier Arau ’98 will guide a Massuah, a short distance from “In future years, I hope that President Jill Beck, along tice rooms and the performance Lawrence student through a sum- Jerusalem. this expansion will include the with Lawrence University’s halls, to go out into the world and mer long internship at his New The application process is run social sciences and humanities, if Conservatory of Music, has recent- explore all sorts of different facets York Jazz Academy. The student entirely online. It requires a recom- student and faculty demand is ly unveiled a summer internship of a musical life,” stressed Dean of will gain exposure to administra- mendation from a professor and a there,” said Beck. program targeted towards con- the Conservatory Brian Pertl. tion as well as assistance in teach- short essay. Students can apply to “Our students will be able servatory students. The program, One of the opportunities ing in an assortment of jazz dis- as many internships as they would to have all of these experiences commencing this summer, will consists of a partnership with ciplines.