“The world is being reshaped everyday when we get up,” Diana Sorensen, dean of humanities at Harvard University and professor of romance languages and literature and comparative literacy, told 40 Viterbo community members and guests on April 23 in the Reinhart center.
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Coaching wrestling, helping with the Special Olympics, and organizing projects middle school and high school students can do help the community are ways Robert Duerst, Viterbo post baccalaureate teacher licensure student from Duluth, Minn., spends his days.
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Viterbo will be offering two courses including an immersion experience to China next school year. The two courses, Majestic China and Business in China, will be offered in the spring 2011 semester. Majestic China is open to traditional and non-traditional undergraduate students.
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Courtyard Carni featuring games, prizes, music
The last Friday before finals is always an eventful day. Classes are done, only finals are left and…Courtyard Carni is taking place. This year is no different. On Friday, May 7, Courtyard Carni will be up and running from noon until 5 p.
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“In 2004, Botswana, in Africa, had the lowest life expectancy in the world at 38 years old due to the high prevalence of AIDS and lack of treatment,” Robert Murphy, professor of medicine at Northwestern University Chicago and director of Global Health, told 60 La Crosse community members on April 16 at UW-La Crosse’s Graff Main Hall during his presentation, “Scaling up HIV/AIDS Treatment in Africa 2010.
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It definitely took ovaries for Megan Loftsgaarden, a junior biology major from Eau Claire, Wis., to pull together “That Takes Ovaries,” an open mike fundraiser held in the Recital Hall on the evening of Thursday April 13. The book “That Takes Ovaries” is a compilation of women’s stories about their bold, brave, and courageous acts.
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On April 16, Vaughn Rodgers, associate professor of chemistry, hosted his annual taco feed, inviting Viterbo science faculty and students to his home to share in a meal and conversation. Samantha Jackson, sophomore biology major from Fennimore, Wis.
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The anticipation built as the wind whipped the faces of 16 female Viterbo students and three faculty members as the New York subway screeched to a halt. The sliding doors opened and a rush of people crowded into the small boxcar to begin their journey to Brooklyn, marking the Viterbo student’s first experience of public transportation in New York City.
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Bouquets of flowers and notes left from loved ones decorate the walkway by Riverside Park outside the Marriott Hotel of La Crosse to honor the life of Craig Meyers, 21-year-old Western Technical student. Mementos were left as reminders to all of the most recent Mississippi River drowning and the tragedy alcohol can cause.
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There are two sides to every story – and Theresa Schumer is no exception. Schumer is a junior criminal justice major from Necedah, Wis. On most days, she walks around campus looking like a typical VU student. But on Thursdays, Schumer might just catch your eye.
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Ben Chartier always loved sports. In high school, he was a state championship football running back. He hoped to play football for UW-La Crosse. Kirk Gunderson loved sports, too. At Onalaska High School, he played hockey, football, and baseball.
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Now in its fifth year, the honors program continues to “provide a supportive, enriched learning environment responsive to the educational needs of highly able and exceptionally motivated undergraduate students,” as written in the honors program mission statement.
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New marketing campaign targets younger generation
The price of a cup of coffee at many coffee shops is around two dollars, but a patron gets more than just a cup of coffee; the patron gets a unique experience. That is the analogy Patrick Kerrigan, vice president of communications and marketing, used to explain Viterbo’s marketing policies.
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“Every day I carry in my body traces of the deep, long-lasting tragedy of the atomic bomb,” Iwao Nakanishi, survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, told 30 Viterbo students, faculty, and community members on Feb. 22 via a web conference.
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Students will gain knowledge on aging process
The criminal justice program recently added a new minor, gerontology. Its mission is to broaden students’ understanding of the life course by increasing the students’ understanding of the process of aging Marlene Fisher, associate professor of criminal justice, told Lumen that the new minor went into effect in the fall of 2009 semester.
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“We are a guest in each other’s lives.” This is how Tom Thibodeau, associate professor of religious studies, greeted someone he had never met. Thibodeau has been part of the Viterbo community for 26 years and considers himself just as much a student as a professor.
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This year, over 562,340 Americans are expected to die of cancer as predicted by the American Cancer Society. Kaila Schoenberger, sophomore biopsychology major from Franksville, Wis., knows how scary that statistic can be. “My grandma was diagnosed and survived breast cancer, but a lot of people’s loved ones aren’t as lucky,” Schoenberger told Lumen.
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“Beware of the Birdherd!” was the 2010 Viterbo Homecoming slogan visible around campus last week. Feb. 8 through 13 was packed with new activities and events to build the momentum of excitement for the homecoming basketball games on Feb.
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Jenna Wolf is a junior management major who studied abroad in Australia fall 2009 through CIS. My name is Jenna Wolf and I studied abroad in the fall of 2009 at the University of Newcastle, South Wales, Australia. The university is home to about 26,000 students.
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I needed a place to stay this second semester. I came with only bits of hope to Viterbo to see what housing I could still find in late December. I passed Tom Thibbedeau in a hallway and asked him if he knew of any students looking for sub-leasers.
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To the readers of the Lumen and the memory of Father Tom O’Neill: During the week of May 16, 2009, the Holy See Mission to the United Nations hosted a conference entitled, “Till it and keep it: Being stewards for a just world.” The focus of the conference centered on Catholic Social Thought (CST) and how it is being applied on an international and local level.
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946 mosquito bites scratched. 169 bird species spotted. 7 ecosystems experienced. 1 trip to Belize. The 2009-2010 Viterbo Ecology of Belize class spent part of their Christmas Break studying the biodiversity of the many ecosystems in Belize. Fifteen Viterbo science students along with Michael Alfieri, associate professor of biology, and Catherine Wright, instructor of biology, spent Dec.
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What do you need to become a teacher? Skills and abilities like how to mange a classroom or how to interact with children are obvious when it comes to wanting to be a teacher, but where to these skills and abilities come from? Experience.
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Jason Howard finds his niche
“I thought that I was actively rebelling by dying my hair blue and cutting it into a Mohawk,” Assistant Professor of Philosophy Jason Howard told Lumen. “I was always being rebellious in my adolescent and adult years. I was angry and skeptical about all institutions.
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“In years past we had students who really took an interest in philosophy. Five students ended up taking enough classes they should have received a degree but Viterbo didn’t offer a philosophy major at that time,” Assistant Professor of Philosophy Jason Howard told Lumen.
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Viterbo students now have access to over 50,000 online journals, up from 20,000 online journals in 2002-2003. Interim Library Director Nancy Steinhoff told Lumen that the Todd Wehr Memorial Library has increased its electronic resources as more students complete research outside the library.
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What can 3,000 volunteers accomplish in four weeks? Hang 2.6 million lights to create the largest light show in the Midwest at La Crosse’s 15th annual Riverside Park Rotary Lights. The La Crosse Rotary Lights is a 100 percent volunteer-operated non-profit organization.
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Room 306 in the Murphy Center is cluttered with computer cords, computer parts, cardboard boxes, and what appear to be printer cartridges, yet the room has been personalized with framed comic strips, paintings on the walls, and two plants. Chad Gilbeck, in his eighth year at Viterbo, sits behind two 20-inch computer monitors, a phone close by, and a third computer in the background flashing a multicolored screensaver.
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She saved a man’s life. She traveled to Russia to adopt her daughter. She left a banking career and $60,000 salary to become a teacher. Her name is Sylvia Foulkes, and she’s a Viterbo V-Hawk.
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“Beep. Beep. Beep,” is the rude wake-up alarm call countless numbers of students hear first thing in the morning. For Jill Baures, senior psychology major from Greenwood, Wis., that morning wake-up “beep” can be heard an average of three times before she rolls out of bed.
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“Everything you need to know about leadership you already know,” said James Hunter to almost roughly 1,000 people at the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center on Wed, Dec. 2. “You spend most of life needing to be reminded, rather than needing to learn.
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Kayla Buffington and her mother, Lori, drove for two hours from Marshfield to La Crosse…on a school night. Their reason? To check out Viterbo’s School of Nursing. Buffington, a junior at Marshfield High School, and her mother attended the School of Nursing’s Open House on Nov.
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With the constant media attention being paid for preserving the environment, and the constant messages about reducing our carbon footprint and cutting down on pollution, Lumen has set out to see what Viterbo is doing on campus to go “green.” ABC News ran a story in 2006 by Clayton Sandell on how to reduce their carbon footprint, described as the measure of the amount of carbon dioxide which is the major man-made global warming greenhouse gas that goes into the atmosphere as you go about your daily life, such as turning on a coffee maker, driving a car, or buying food.
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“Leadership is not a position, it’s an action, a verb,” Matt Harter, 24-year-old mayor of La Crosse, told 30 students in the Reinhart center on Nov. 7 for Viterbo’s fourth annual student leadership conference, “Leading Down the Path of Tomorrow.
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The masked man dove for cover behind the nearest bunker as shots whistled above his head. Peering around the barricade, he identified his opponent two bunkers away. Lifting the weight of his paintball gun, the man all in black readied himself to take aim.
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A month ago, Patrick Andera’s office still had yet to be decorated. Among papers and folders, you would find one bowl of tootsie roll candies sitting on one of the tables, just for a treat. Now since settling in to becoming Viterbo’s new campus minister, the space is finally a little more organized, with a picture or two on the wall.
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Food hygiene and the use of local produce have been pushed into the limelight in modern times as the term you are what you eat became more prominent. There is also an importance placed on supporting local businesses and farmers especially in this time of economic downturn.
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Interview and job advice for students
Career Specialist Anne Ellefson thinks the details are important during the job search process. “Sweat the small stuff,” she told Lumen. In her position at Viterbo’s Career Services office, Ellefson advises Viterbo students preparing for their first professional job.
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UW-L speaker sparks discussion among students
“Every person in this room knows at least one person who has been raped,” Jackson Katz, nationally known educator, author, and filmmaker told a sold-out audience of 1,000 at UW- La Crosse’s Cartwright Center on September 16. Nationally recognized lecturer on gender violence and media in America, Katz’s first presentation in La Crosse caused much interest as the audience packed into seats and filled the aisle ways.
New hours at Franny's
Franny’s, Viterbo’s on-campus cybercafé is now operating under extended hours that started September 14 due to student request. Since the opening of Franny’s on the Viterbo campus four years ago, the regular closing hours had been set at 2:30 p.
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