SPORTS, PAGE 7 NEWS, PAGE 3 ETCETERA, PAGE 8 Two Falcons set school UWRF Black Student Union invites all ‘The Imitation Game’ is records at home track students to participate in organizational an above-average war and field meet. meetings and events. biopic. University of Wisconsin River Falls TUDENT OICE FebruaryS 20, 2015 www.uwrfvoice.com V Volume 101, Issue 15 Education Abroad Fair encourages world travel Jack Tuthill eling Classroom] because [email protected] you can go to a whole bunch of different places.” The 2015 spring semester Edu- International Traveling cation Abroad Fair was held on Classroom (ITC) is a spring Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the Falcon’s semester program that gives Nest, and over 260 UW-River Falls students an opportunity to students curiously moved around visit seven significant cit- the room in hopes of learning more ies in Europe while earning about the 24 unique Education course credit. Abroad programs and opportunities. ITC costs approximately The Education Abroad Fair is a $16,000 for the semester. once-a-semester event, usually held Ideally, ITC needs 25 to 35 in the third week of each new aca- students to be financially vi- demic semester, and this particular able. Currently, there are 31 fair featured 21 UWRF programs, ITC students abroad. Stu- one internship opportunity through dents are in the classroom World Endeavors, and booths from or on fieldtrips in each city UW-Platteville and the University for seven days, but are given of Minnesota. three days to sightsee there- Platteville and Minnesota offer after. Education Abroad programs to in- “So, you have a couple terested students who want to travel days in-between to sort of to a specific country which UWRF wander and find what you does not offer. want,” said Rich Wallace, All 21 UWRF programs that were ITC spring 2015 coordina- featured at the Education Abroad tor. “Then we meet back up, Fair are faculty led or administered; and we just move across Eu- Carmella Everhart/Student Voice nine of the programs are semester rope this way.” Joomin Hwang and Minchang Jang sing songs in Korean for everyone at the end of the Education Abroad Fair. length, and 12 are short-term and Tentatively, the 2016 take place during J-term, spring ITC program will visit the coun- Global Connections with the hope bagpipes at the fair, which flooded stop by and see what’s what. We re- break or summer. While Global tries of Scotland, England, France, of matching a specific program with the University Center with music— ally like the location, and it’s suited Connections does its best to spread the Netherlands, Italy and Ger- a specific individual. When choos- the extremely loud kind. us very well.” word of each Education Abroad many. Approximately $11,000 of ing an Education Abroad program, “So he started to go ‘whoooo,’ Rogers said that the fall fair usu- Fair, there are always students un- the $16,000 goes towards lodging, it’s important to consider the loca- and I thought: ‘wow, that’s loud; ally gets over 500 students, in com- aware of it. meals, plane and rail tickets, and tion, time of year and cost of each that’s really, really loud,’” Rogers parison to the 260 it saw on Feb. 11. “It’s surprising to me how many course costs. program. said. “It’s usually the third week of times people say: ‘yeah, I just The other $5,000 is an estimat- “The cost is kept down in the The bagpipes player was then classes and so there’s a lot of dream- kind of walked by,’” said Educa- ed cost of what an average stu- [Experience] Scotland program by escorted outside because of the ex- ing and new interest and every- tion Abroad Advisor Carol Rogers. dent spends on other expenses like doing some house chores,” Rogers cessive noise, where he played for thing,” Rogers said. “You got one “There’s a lot going on in the Fal- clothes, entertainment, souvenirs, said. “Like, sometimes you have students walking around campus, quarter of the school that maybe con’s Nest, and sometimes it con- tours, and fine-dining. to sweep the front steps of this pal- while a Global Connections student isn’t familiar with the whole idea of cerns you and sometimes you feel “It’s an expensive program, not as ace—yeah, not too bad, I’ll do that. employee held a sign, inviting stu- Education Abroad, except for bits like you might be just kind of crash- expensive as it could be,” Wallace It can be the right thing for you, dents into the Falcon’s Nest for the and pieces, so it is our bigger fair.” ing a party, but we really want you said. “We get people that spend only and perhaps not for someone else. fair. If you’re interested in learning to come into this one.” $1,000 or $1,200, and we get people Everyone’s situation is unique, just The next Education Abroad Fair more about Education Abroad pro- Among the 260 students who at- who’ve spent $10,000 of their own like being here [at UWRF].” will be held on Sept. 16 in the Fal- grams, visit the Global Connections tended was UWRF student Taylor money. That cost is all you.” At the conclusion of the Educa- con’s Nest, a date that has to be office in 102 Hagestad Hall. Gregg, who visited Italy over J-term Students studying abroad in one tion Abroad Fair, UWRF students booked 18 months in advance. Specialists are available for guid- in January through the Explore Italy of the other 20 UWRF programs Joomin Hwang and Minchang Jang “The Falcon’s Nest seems to be ance, and a number of pamphlets program. can do so in countries such as Ja- sang songs in their native Korean a really good place for it,” Rogers are available for important informa- “I’m really anxious to go back pan, Germany, Australia, India, language to the enjoyment of the said. “It’s right on the first floor, tion. Applications for summer Edu- abroad,” Gregg said. “I kind of Costa Rice, Nicaragua, China, Scot- growing crowd. it’s at a convenient time right in the cation Abroad programs are usually wanted to go for a semester and I land, Uganda and Belize. Interested Last year, Rogers was able to per- middle of the day, so people are al- due before April 1. was looking at [International Trav- students are guided by faculty in suade a UWRF student to play the ready eating and they can hopefully Dairy Club takes top honors Focus on U pushes forward at dairy science conference despite lack of equipment Maxwell Vine members, with the senior it really shows that our school Rebecca Meidl lems. According to Travis ress and if we’re not advanc- teams having junior and se- is just as prestigious as they [email protected] [email protected] Kronk, the editor and treasur- ing as an organization, then nior level students with the are,” Zwiefelhofer said. er of Focus on U, every pack- why have an organization?” The senior Dairy Club junior teams having freshmen There were over 500 stu- There are many organiza- age producer (a person that Kronk said. team at UW-River Falls has and sophomore students. dents that participated in the tions on the campus of UW- puts a single story together) To get a camera would have taken top honors for the third “In the Quiz Bowl there are conference, with many of River Falls, and all of these has two weeks to get a story been a huge help because Fo- year in a row at the Midwest two phases per round,” said those students participating organizations attract different and video together for the on- cus on U has only one camera Regional American Dairy senior Diary Club member in the Quiz Bowl. kinds of people. There are air showing that happens ev- for all of the package produc- Science Association-Student Paige Roberts, in an email. “It’s a confidence-builder clubs for marketing commu- ery other Thursday. ers to use. Affiliate Division (ADSA- “The first phase is individual for all the students in our nication majors, psychology This semester, Focus on U If the camera is being used SAD) Conference hosted by questions where each mem- club,” said Dairy Club Ad- majors, for people who are is trying to put people into by someone else, then every- UW-Platteville in Wisconsin ber gets asked three questions visor Steven Kelm. “It’s just interested in astronomy, and teams, where they will have one else has to wait on their Dells, Wisconsin. and if you get it right you kind of saying that we’re then there’s something called a technical person (someone story until use of the cam- The conference was held get 10 points.” Roberts also competing with the very best “Focus on U.” who knows how to run the era becomes available. With from Jan. 30 through Feb. said that the second phase is in the nation in a lot of differ- Focus on U is something camera and all the equip- these budget cuts, Focus on 1. The conference featured a speed round where players ent ways, and coming out on that has been around for quite ment) together with people U has had to hold off on try- many speakers and programs can win or lose points, similar top means that we are com- some time, but not many peo- who want to be onscreen, ing to get another camera that based around the dairy indus- to the speed round in Family peting very well.” ple on campus know about and writers, who write for would be progress for the or- try, and invited many Mid- Feud.