In the 95-year history of the Midwest Conference, there has now never been a head football coach with more victories than Ripon College’s Ron Ernst. With Saturday’s 27-7 victory over Lake Forest in the Red Hawks’ 2015 season finale, Ernst earned the 160th win in his 25-year career, all of which have come at Ripon. […]
As we approach World Peace Day on Nov. 17, it would be easy to be discouraged by the wanton and brutal violence being perpetrated in so many parts of the world today. However, it is important to recognize that, as Steven Pinker has recently pointed out, instances of organized violence and warfare have actually declined […]
A revival of the great Broadway classic musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will be presented by the Ripon College music and theatre departments Nov. 11 through 14. Performances will be at 7:30 each evening in the Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the Ripon College campus. Tickets are […]
President Zach Messitte is one of three writers who published an opinion piece in the Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel newspaper over the weekend. In “The GOP and Those Nattering Nabobs of Negativity,” they write that 46 years ago this week, long before current Republican candidates’ “potshots” at the press, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew found his own […]
McKenzie Lamb, associate professor of mathematical sciences and chair of the department at Ripon College, will present the talk “Modeling Monopoly: Discrete Approximations, Google PageRank, and Homotopies” Tuesday, Nov. 10. The talk will run from 3-4 p.m. in Todd Wehr Hall, Room 216, on the college campus. He will speak about a joint research project […]
Associate Professor of Politics and Government Lamont Colucci has published a new article on The Weekly Standard, showcasing the opposing nature of President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s doctrines. In The Putin Doctrine in Action, Colucci writes: “As the Obama doctrine is a tortured pathway of penance, contrition, and risk aversion designed to manage […]
“Street Life under a Roof: Youth Homelessness in South Africa,” by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Emily “Molly” Margaretten, was published by the University of Illinois Press Sept. 8. Point Place stands near the city center of Durban, South Africa. Condemned and off the grid, the five-story apartment building is nonetheless home to 100+ teenagers and […]
President Zach Messitte and Vice President and Dean of Faculty Ed Wingenbach simultaneously called about 8,000 alumni and friends Oct. 13 to share updates on the state of Ripon College, the curriculum review process currently underway, and the campaign to renovate and expand the College’s health and wellness facilities. The pair took calls from numerous […]
Rebecca Matzke, associate professor of history and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, was interviewed recently on NER Radio (Nebraska Public Radio). The topic was her research about Cold War missiles in Nebraska. Matzke is a native of Nebraska. An audio and transcript of the interview can be accessed here.
Jacqueline Clark, associate professor of sociology and chair of the department, wrote a guest blog for Sociological Images, published Oct. 7, 2015. In “Fat shaming. It’s a thing,” Clark cites Nicole Arbout’s youtube video, “Dear Fat People,” which mocks obese people, says they deserve to be ridiculed and treated poorly, and claims that “fat shaming” […]
Rafael Francisco Salas, associate professor of art, will have an exhibit of his work shown Oct. 9 through Nov. 6 at Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin. “World Without End” includes large-scale drawings, paintings and sculptures that reflect upon identity and tension, conflict and confusion, beauty and devotion played out on the vast rural Wisconsin landscape and […]
Hervé Somé, associate professor of educational studies, published two political opinion pieces related to the coup in Burkina Faso on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2015, against the government of transition to democratic institutions after ex-President Blaise Compaore was ousted by a popular rising on Oct. 31, 2014. “General Diendere’s game is up!” was published Sept. 18, […]
Remarks by Professor of Religion Brian Smith were included in an article by Gannett News Services about the visit to the United States of Pope Francis. Read it here.
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, recently published an opinion piece on USNews.com, criticizing President Obama’s recent diplomatic strong-arming. He cites an incident from 1797 in which President John Adams sent three American envoys to France in an attempt to forestall war between the United States and its Revolutionary […]
When planning for her summer activities, Kathryn Bruhns ’16 of Oak Park, Illinois, hoped to do research at a different college. She approached Andrea Young, assistant professor of mathematical sciences and chair of the department, for a letter of recommendation. When Bruhns found out she did not get into the program she had applied for, […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, recently published an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report about his perspective as interest in the coming election rises. “Each time the United States and the United Kingdom have a general election, the far-left candidates delineate themselves by their domestic socialist, […]
Mollie Oblinger, associate professor of art, and Rafael Salas, associate professor of art, have work included in a group exhibit through Sept. 5 at the Thelma in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Oblinger also has work in a group show at the Angela Meleca Gallery through Sept. 3 in Columbus, Ohio; and her work will be […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, recently published an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report. In “Russia Keeps Winning,” Colucci writes that Russian foreign policy is putting America’s to shame. He writes that if anything can characterize the Obama foreign policy, it would be the phrase “the […]
Professor of Religion Brian Smith and Associate Professor of History Becky Matzke will serve as co-directors of the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College during the upcoming 2015-2016 academic year. The Center, founded in 2014 with a lead gift from Ripon College Trustee Bill MacLeod ’73, was created to promote constructive political […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, published an opinion piece on NationalReview.com. In “Will Obama Allow ISIS to Have Chemical Weapons, Too?”, Colucci questions President Obama’s stance on ISIS using chemical weapons, citing his previous failure with Syria. “It has been well-documented that the Assad regime in Syria used […]