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Marian College’s Weekly News www.mariancollege.edu 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. YOU are Marian 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. Send emails to [email protected] or call ext. 7656 THE WEEK AT MARIAN Page 2 of 5 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 YOU are Marian 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. See FESTIVAL page 5 Send emails to [email protected] or call ext. 7656 Page 3 of 5 THE WEEK AT MARIAN April 2–9, 2007 3 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. Writing Center A213 (920) 923-8764 Monday–Thursday 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Sunday 4–7 p.m. YOU are Marian 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]. Send emails to [email protected] or call ext. 7656 Page 4 of 5 THE WEEK AT MARIAN April 2–9, 2007 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 Final Report & Editorial 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 YOU are Marian Send emails to [email protected] or call ext. 7656 4 THE WEEK AT MARIAN Page 5 of 5 April 2–9, 2007 5 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 YOU are Marian 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. Send emails to [email protected] or call ext. 7656