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April 2–9, 2007
THE WEEK AT MARIAN
Produced for Marian College students, faculty and staff
Richard Kyte, Ph.D., of Viterbo University in La Crosse spoke on “Practicing
Hospitality to the Dying” in the Stayer Center Friday (above). Poet Mayda del
Valle (right) performed in the Hornung Student Center Wednesday.
Fundraiser in memory of senior Tuesday
Marian College students will host a
pastry, coffee and chili sale to raise money
in honor of former classmate Tori Heimann
in Marian’s Administration Building
Tuesday, April 3 beginning at 8 a.m.
Marian College student Tori Heimann
was killed by an alleged drunk driver Feb.
11. Heimann would have graduated from
Marian in May Summa Cum Laude with a
degree in social work and psychology.
Coffee and pastries will be sold
beginning at 8 a.m., then chili will be sold
beginning at 11 a.m. while supplies last.
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Ribbons will also be sold during the event
and at Marian’s Common Grounds Coffee
House beginning April 2. Donations will be
accepted at Common Grounds through
May 19; checks should be made out to
SSWA, the Marian Student Social Work
Association.
Information about drunk driving will
also be provided. Students will also be
encouraged to wear red in remembrance of
their classmate and to take a stand against
drunk driving. Red ribbons will be placed
around campus.
“Tori was always there for you,” says
classmate Stephanie Bakken. “She was the
kind of person you could always go to when
you needed help. She was great to be in
class with; she was always willing to share
and really challenged you. Marian just isn’t
the same without her.”
The money raised from the event will be
used to create a memorial for Tori on
campus with a crabapple tree and a
plaque. The remaining proceeds will go
toward the Tori Heimann Memorial Fund.
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MONDAY 2
TUESDAY 3
African American
Student Union silent
auction
A100
African American
Student Union silent
auction
A100
Business Administration
Division scholarship
fundraiser
Breezeway
10 AM–2:30 PM
Fundraiser in memory
of Tori Heimann
Breezeway
8 AM–2 PM
WEDNESDAY 4
THURSDAY 5
African American Student Easter Vacation
Union silent auction
Holy Thursday
A100
Baseball at Concordia
(doubleheader)
2 PM
Baseball vs. Rockford
(Ill.) (doubleheader)
Noon
April 2–9, 2007
FRIDAY 6
Easter Vacation
2
SATURDAY 7
Easter Vacation
Good Friday — college Holy Saturday
closed
Men’s tennis at Dominican
(Ill.)
1 PM
Staff Forum
Softball vs. Rockford
Stayer Center 205
(Ill.) (doubleheader)
Business Administration 3–4 PM
3 PM
Vice President for
Division scholarship
Institutional
fundraiser
Organizational
Softball at Concordia
Advancement candidate Breezeway
Leadership & Quality
(doubleheader)
Stayer Center 212—213 10:15 AM–2:15 PM
information session
3 PM
10:30–11:45 AM
Holiday Inn at Cedar
Business Club
Men’s tennis vs. Concordia Creek Mall (I-39 exit
185), Rothschild
Job Search Strategies Videolympics
4 PM
3–7 PM
That Produce Results Stayer Center 124
5:30 PM
Career Development
Center
Ballroom dancing
5–6 PM
lessons
6–7 PM
Stayer Center 212–213
4:45 PM
SUNDAY 8
Easter Vacation
Easter
MONDAY 9
Easter Vacation
Softball at St. Norbert
1 PM
Baseball vs. Carthage (seven- and nine-inning
games)
Fond du Lac Baseball Complex
2 PM
The Week Ahead at Marian:
Monday, April 2–Monday, April 9
For an updated list of events, go to http://www.mariancollege.edu/interior.asp?id=67
Fond du Lac Jazz Festival features ‘Bones’ Malone
After a one-year time-out to reorganize,
the Fond du Lac Jazz Festival is back just
in time to celebrate its 25th year with
headline performer Tom “Bones” Malone of
the David Letterman Show house band.
A one-night show is set for the historic
Retlaw Theater in downtown Fond du Lac
Friday, April 13 at 7 p.m.
Two opportunities to meet the artist up
close and personal will be provided before
and after the concert. Malone will host a
clinic open to the public from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
at Marian College just prior to the concert.
An afterglow gathering after the concert
will allow even more time to meet Malone
and gather with other jazz enthusiasts.
The renewed festival returns with a
restructured format and venue, although
many similarities of past shows will
remain.
“The biggest change is that we are
keeping it simple,” said event organizer
Brian Lydeen, a music professor at Marian
College who also co-directs the high school
jazz band that has performed each year at
the Fond du Lac Jazz Festival. “We have
restructured to a one-night format at a
different location where space is being
donated to us. Therefore tickets are less
expensive,” Lydeen said, adding that
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recent requests for sponsorship have also
been very positive.
The upcoming concert materialized
when Lydeen ran into Malone at a recent
jazz clinic in Milwaukee. The two have
been acquaintances for years and struck up
a conversation about the local committee’s
one-year hiatus from the event.
“Malone felt like he could help us and
offered to perform at a very reasonable
cost,” Lydeen said. “It allowed us to kickstart our new plan for a simpler jazz
concert and venue where performance
costs wouldn’t get out of hand and
sponsorships would be more appealing.”
For 24 years the Fond du Lac Jazz
Festival brought hundreds of jazz lovers to
Fond du Lac each spring. The event
quickly became a signature event for the
community, drawing headline jazz greats
such as George Shearing, Boots Randolph,
Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, the Ramsey
Lewis Trio and in recent years well known
artists such as Diane Schuur, Poncho
Sanchez, Ellis Marsalis, and Tonight Show
musician Kevin Eubanks.
The Fond du Lac Jazz Festival, which
was a two-night event until now, holds the
record as the oldest jazz festival in
Wisconsin. In the past, performances were
held at Marian College, the University of
Wisconsin–Fond du Lac and the Fond du
Lac County Fairgrounds. The new format
will make it a more intimate setting with
limited seating. Only 400 seats are
available at the nostalgic, historic Retlaw
Theater that dates back to the early 1900s.
The event has always had a contingent
of local performers as well. For years the
Fond du Lac Jazz Festival has featured
some of the area high school’s best jazz
musicians in the All Star Band, created
specifically for the festival in 1999. Now
called the Regional High School Honors
Jazz Ensemble, the group will continue to
perform at this year’s concert and those in
the future. The group is co-directed by
UW–Oshkosh music professor Marty
Robinson and Fond du Lac Jazz Festival
co-chair Brian Lydeen.
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OPEN HOURS
Common Grounds
Coffee House
SPRING SEMESTER
Monday–Thursday
7 a.m.–9 p.m.
Friday
7 a.m.–4 p.m.
Saturday
7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sunday
Noon–9 p.m.
The annual Cotillion, now called “Club Marian,” was held in the Stayer Center Friday.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Marian College Theatre celebrates 15 years with play
Cardinal Meyer Library
Monday–Thursday
7:30 a.m.–11 p.m.
Friday
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday
Noon–4 p.m.
Sunday
2–11 p.m.
Bookstore and
Sabre Shop
Monday–Friday
8 a.m.–4 p.m.
Weekends
CLOSED
Stayer Center
Monday–Friday
7 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
(Extended hours based on
conferences and events)
Stayer Center client parking is
located south of the Stayer Center.
General campus parking is located
south of Sadoff Gymnasium.
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A213 (920) 923-8764
Monday–Thursday
9 a.m.–7 p.m.
Friday
9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Sunday 4–7 p.m.
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Marian College Theatre will
present William Shakespeare’s
fun-filled romantic comedy, “A
Midsummer
Night’s
Dream,” as its spring 2007
featured drama.
The play completes the
student-founded Theatre’s 15th
season on a classical note of
high-spirited humor.
Performances will take place
in the college’s Hornung
Student Center April 19–21 at
8 p.m. and April 22 at 1:30 p.m.
Admission is $5 for the general
public, $2 for senior citizens
and non-Marian students with
a valid ID, and free to the
Marian College community.
Founded in 1992 by a group
of creative students who
provided the impetus and startup funding for the college’s first
annual play, Marian College
Theatre is directed by Dr.
David Schimpf. The Theatre
engages students from all
divisions of the college, ranging
from science and nursing to the
arts and humanities.
The spring 2007 production
enlists the talent of student
actors and technicians along
with theatrical artists from the
local
community.
Cast
members include Renee Beyer,
Scott Bins, Andy Brault, Nicole
Brocks, Amanda Czajkowski,
April
Dunisch,
Tiffany
Erdmann,
Chantelle
Graczkowski, Rob Gustafson,
Veronica Hilgenberg, Amanda
Koss, Katie Oestreich, Brett
Petri, Maggie Pickart, David
Schimpf,
Mark
Schimpf,
Elizabeth Stafford, Melissa
TeWinkle,
Annette
Van
Straten, and Brittany Woyak.
A carnival of contagious fun
and folly, “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream” follows the
romantic revolts and reveries of
four star-crossed youths who
spurn
the
trappings
of
arranged marriage in pursuit of
true love. The youths are aided
and abetted by a cast of
matchmaking fairies with an
uncanny knack for mischief.
Considered
one
of
Shakespeare’s
finest
and
funniest comedies, the play
captures
the
everyday
frustrations
and
common
pitfalls that pave the road of
romance, dating and marriage
while also adding a dash of
magical
spice,
reminding
audiences that anything is
possible in a world transformed
by love’s rebellious spirit.
Celebrating its 15th season,
Marian College Theatre draws
its strength from a long legacy
of student activism that
inspired the formation of the
theatre in the 1992–93 school
year, when members of a
student club approached college
faculty to discuss founding a
theatre program. Student club
funds financially backed the
college’s first play. The outlay of
student support — coupled
with
a
separate
but
synchronous effort by the
college
administration
to
establish a Communications
department — led to the
inception of Marian College
Theatre, a full-service theatre
arts program. Marian College
Theatre includes an academic
minor and experiential-based
learning through spring and
fall productions. It advocates a
holistic study of the theatre arts
as a means of creative
expression,
personal
enrichment
and
civic
participation.
Creating a collaborative
exchange between college and
community, past productions
have united the skills of
student actors and community
members, including volunteers
from the Fond du Lac
Community Theatre, which
celebrates its 50th anniversary
this year. The College and
community theatre’s respective
15- and 50-year milestones
speak to a much broader trend
— Fond du Lac constituents’
dedicated
commitment
to
grassroots theatre.
For
more
information,
please contact Dr. David
Schimpf at (920) 923-8734 or by
email
at
[email protected].
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arms, legs, and groin eventually leading to massive
tissue destruction and the blackening of the infected
person’s body, hence, the name the “Black Death.”
Essentially, the course of the disease subjected the
infected person to witness and smell the massive
destruction and rotting of body tissues while still
alive.
A terrible transformation of societal values
accompanied the Plague’s path of destruction.
People abandoned sick family members in attempts
to escape personal infection. Many submitted to
wanton behavior, gluttony, and carnal desires, seeing
the end at hand. Others took on a religious fervor
that included whipping oneself and others (the
Flagellants) as penance for sins that precipitated the
disease. Cures that included bleeding with leeches
and smelling aromatic vapors of herbs and spices
most likely exacerbated the course of infection. The
Dark Age practice of bathing once during the year
probably didn’t help, either. Certain groups in
society were targeted as scapegoats for causing the
The Plague Gazette Morbidity/Mortality
epidemic and were exterminated. There were stories
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of miracles and horrors alike. It wasn’t until 1946,
with the widespread introduction of antibiotics, that
The Plague Game has been lots of fun, but
the number of deaths due to Plague diminished
the actual Plague was devastating.
substantially, but there are incidences of this disease
Brought to the Mediterranean shores by
now in Nairobi and Kenya.
trade ships from Asia, the disease quickly spread
During the course of this Game more than
from city–state to city–state through Europe. Fleas
1,120 of Marian’s community members were
associated with black rats transmitted the disease by “dotted.” This value is roughly the same as the
carrying the bacterium Yersinia pestis and by
estimated morbidity rate of approximately 85
enjoying human flesh as much as rat flesh. Though
percent during the actual Plague. There are 38
black rats were native to Asia, these avid climbers
confirmed “deaths.” Under the worst-case scenario
entered ship holds and their fleas easily adapted to
imaginable, had this not been a game but a
the swarms of rats native to Europe. Between 1346
bioterrorist incident, how many people might have
and 1350 it is estimated that 25 to 35 percent of the contracted the formidable agent? How many of us
population of Europe was killed
would have had ample access to health care? How
The rats and fleas found an amenable setting many would have fled, taken up arms, behaved
in the crowded dwellings of European towns and the irrationally? In this season of Mardi Gras and Lent I
disease spread not only by the bites of the fleas, but encourage you to think about these questions over
by respiratory droplets from coughs and sneezes of
the weekend.
Plague victims. Symptoms appeared rapidly after
Many, many thanks to all participants from
contact with infected persons. Terrible aches and
Sr. Marie Scott and Dr. Susan Bornstein-Forst and
pains racked patients as the toxins of the bacillus
all the members of the Religion and Science class.
Yersinia pestis were released. Large, hardened and
excruciating, blood filled lesions called buboes
would appear in the axillary parts of the patient’s
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Sabre Sports Schedule
For more information, head to the Marian College athletics Web site:
http://www.mariancollege.edu/interior.asp?id=37
Men’s tennis
April 4: Concordia, 4 p.m.
April 7: at Dominican, noon.
Softball
April 4: at Concordia (doubleheader), 3
p.m.
April 5: Rockford (doubleheader), 3 p.m.
Jazz Festival
from page 2
“A portion of the festival
proceeds are awarded to those
students in the form of
scholarships or for attending
jazz clinics,” Lydeen said.
“Helping them enhance their
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April 9: at St. Norbert (doubleheader), 1
p.m.
Scoreboard
Baseball
April 4: at Concordia (doubleheader), 1
p.m.
April 5: Rockford (doubleheader), 1 p.m.
April 9: Carthage (seven- and nine-inning
doubleheader), 1 p.m.
Men’s tennis
training is one of the main
functions of our festival.”
New to the Jazz Festival this
year is another group of local
musicians — the Lighthouse
Big Band, a 17-piece show band
formed two years ago by Jim
Arthur of Fond du Lac. The
band performs regularly in the
area and is directed by Lydeen.
Area talent among the group
includes Ray Wifler, Dick
Wehner, Nickole Kawleski,
Paul Thelen, Mark Plummer
and Arthur to name a few. The
Lighthouse Big Band will
perform just prior to the
headline performer.
Tickets for the April 13 Jazz
Festival are $16 and can be
purchased at the door or in
advance at Mike’s Music,
JukeBox Charlies Restaurant,
Main Exchange Restaurant,
and the Windhover Center for
the Arts (call 921-5410). Seats
Aurora 5, Marian 4
Softball
Marian 12, Alverno 3
Marian 9, Alverno 1 (5 innings)
Marian 7, Concordia–Chicago 2
Marian 10, Concordia–Chicago 1
(5 innings)
Baseball
Marian 4, Lakeland 1
Marian 5, Lakeland 2
Aurora 11, Marian 10
Aurora 9, Marian 8 (10 innings)
are limited and are on a firstcome, first-served basis. Doors
open at 6 p.m., with music
beginning at 7 p.m. The Jazz
Café returns, offering an array
of sandwiches, snacks and
beverages throughout the
evening.
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