vm. ex.xv, No. 7 LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1884 WWW.lAWRENTIAN.COM Endowed professorship encourages community service Inside Mike Toycen By doing this, the OEL would Richard Pieper Family Foundation to them. Among his other achieve­ for The Lawrentian develop programs where students of Milwaukee. According to Parks, ments, he was also the recipient take what they've learned in the "They were electrical contractors of the 2006-2007 Freshman Studies Professor of Mathematics and classroom and use it for volunteer­ that developed a non-profit subsid- Teaching Award. SPORTS Computer Sciences Alan Parks has ing in the community. For example, iary to fund initiatives in education, "Overall," he said, "this has been been named to an endowed profes­ the Web site for the OEL is planning a lot of character education." a very encouraging thing to start sorship, the Pieper Family Professor to have programs like foreign lan­ Though the foundation originally with. There's been a lot of enthusi­ of Servant Leadership. Through this guage majors instructing students dealt with lower level education, asm. There are many faculty mem­ professorship, Parks is starting the at Edison Elementary School, to give it has begun to dabble in higher bers already who have been doing Office for Engaged Learning (OEL). the students "a taste of studying a education. The Milwaukee School of these kinds of projects. We're trying This office, according to Parks, is foreign language and culture." Engineering has had a grant for a to help and improve." He also made "going to allow people to take their Parks also cited the Sustainable few years, and UW-Madison is just it clear that the OEL is for both the curricular interests and coursework Lawrence University Garden (SLUG) starting up. conservatory and the college. to the outside community and have as something that has a lot of poten­ Lawrence was chosen because Though this is the first school an impact on community needs and tial. With education about sustain­ "grants were offered competitive- year that Parks is acting under the problems." able agriculture "all kinds of things ly" to a number of schools around named professorship (since July), "There is an awful lot of faculty can be done [with it.]" The Volunteer Wisconsin, and the Pieper Foundation the OEL is currently active. If you and student interest in this," Parks Hockey gets a comeback and Career Centers are also impor­ chose Lawrence's proposal over sev- are interested in volunteering for said. "Our students at Lawrence have win over the weekend. tant. "Both of these entities have eral other schools'. the office, contact Professor Alan a high value of outreach and volun­ felt isolated. They appreciate having Parks said he was chosen for the Parks by e-mail or visit the web­ »seepage 8 teerism." The OEL will help to boost more contact," said Parks. professorship because of his inter- site, http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/ this effort and turn it into "super­ The $1 million start-up for this est in outreach activities, especially engagedJearning. volunteerism." endeavor came from the Suzanne & activities that have an academic side FEATURES Getting to know Professor David Cook. »seepage 3 A&E Stars sing about lost love in the Windy City. Photos by Raad Fadaak >>seepage 6 New-age autumn: The trees on Main Hall green are set aflame with the setting sun in the fall afternoon. Weather Convo: Hawken and the world's largest social movement Liz Tubman various organizations dedicated to war gave us the first example of many, due to the media. Staff Writer one environmental or social cause, what came to be known as civil dis­ The data we are presented with started him thinking: Who are all obedience. by the media is overwhelmingly pes­ Tuesday, Nov. 6, Lawrence these organizations and what are These morals and ideas influ­ simistic. However, Hawken asserted, University welcomed Paul Hawken they doing for the world? enced the thinking and actions of who we are and where we are today as the featured speaker for this Hawken's interest was piqued people far into the future includ­ is much more than where the media year's third convocation. Hawken and he began researching and com­ ing Gandhi, Rosa Parks, and Martin tells us we are. In this way, the media has worked throughout his life to piling a list of all the organizations Luther King, Jr. is corrupting and betraying the gen­ promote sustainability and better of this kind throughout the world. Hawken created a video that eral public. Partly cloudy Saturday relationships between businesses, When his list grew to over 100,000 showed the names and home coun­ He described this mass social and Sunday. the environment, and humans by organization names, Hawken knew tries of his list of organizations dedi­ movement as "humanity's immune speaking across the world and writ­ that he had come across something cated to environmental and social system response" to rampant cor­ Saturday ing about his experiences. important. justice, though to see every listing, ruption and social injustice through­ Hawken's address focused on He also spent time looking back the video would have to play for 24 out the world. In his closing words, IHigh 47 the topic of his latest book, entitled into history to discover the roots hours a day every day for a month. Hawken encouraged the audience 'How 38 Blessed Unrest: How the largest move­ of this mass environmental and The reason? Between one and two to keep working for the causes they Wind: SSE at 12 mph ment in the world came into being social movement, which led him to million organizations are shown in believe in. and why no one saw it coming. This the Transcendentalists, including the video. When we take action for these Sunday book examines the shift our world is Emerson and Thoreau. This is the largest social move­ causes, we are participating in a #High 48 experiencing from a world created Emerson realized the intercon­ ment in the history of the world, so movement much bigger than one by and for the privileged to a world nectedness of nature and all living one might wonder why more isn't usually imagines, and we are join­ lLow 44 created instead by community. things, which is the idea driving heard about it. Hawken's answer ing the rest of the human race in Wind: W at 11 mph A shopping bag full of business these organizations today, while was that the kindness of strangers the effort to create a better world cards that Hawken collected from Thoreau's protest of the use of his and the overall best humanity has to live in. Source: weather.com his travels, each listing the names of tax money for the Mexican-American to offer remain largely unseen by THE LAWRENTIAN 2 FEATURES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007 Four thousand miles across the sea No trick-or-treat, no Turkey Day ... but hey, I went to Amsterdam Meghan McCallum have had a long weekend thanks to their respects to deceased relatives, Halloween. Sure, it's an excuse for pies. That might not have been a Staff Writer this holiday, called "Toussaint." for example, citizens pass the day kids to get some candy and for an joke, though. Don't the French have the whole basically however they want. One "Americanized" bar to have drink In many ways, actually, you specials, but it probably wasn't the might say that my Toussaint Break I just came back to Nantes after month of August as vacation? Why interviewee on a Paris news broad­ do they need more? For one, they cast said, "It's a day of tranquil­ same scene that a lot of you experi­ was a lot like Lawrence's Reading my !ES version of midterm Reading don't have Thanksgiving. Secondly, ity; a good afternoon for a walk." enced at the Co-op. Period. Officially the break was Period. All over France, there is a one-week long (or longer, depend­ Toussaint is the French equivalent Students, profiting from their week­ I've got to say, it has been a meant to allow me, as a French ing on the grade level) vacation for of what we'd call All Saints' Day, long vacation, sometimes choose to weird Toussaint Break for me. For student, to spend time with my all students, taking place during or the day when you eat all of your spend their time hanging out with probably the first time in my life, I family and give thanks to those who the end of October to the beginning Halloween candy. The official day friends and partying at night. The didn't eat any candy on Halloween have died. Because I am American, of November. This only applies to of Toussaint is November 1, and Toussaint holiday isn't completely (today's my 21st birthday, so if though, the more common celebra­ students officially registered in the the traditional celebrations are what destroyed; families do make a point you're a math major you know that I tion during my break might have French school system, however; so you'd expect: bringing flowers to of spending time together, but the was almost 1 on my first Halloween been Halloween - a holiday that the past few days I have been doing the graves of loved ones and giving original meaning is said to be slip­ - I probably ate some kind of sug­ allows me to dress crazy and drink homework and getting up early for thanks for their impact on others' ping.