Jake Jacobs, a dynamic and energized speaker, writer and historian, will speak at Ripon College Wednesday, April 26. His talk, “Political Correctness: Stifling Freedoms in Schools and Society,” will run from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the campus. Free pizza and beverages will be provided. His appearance is sponsored […]
A fun family day to support fire safety education will be held Sunday, April 23, in the Village Green, downtown Ripon. Phi Delta Theta will sponsor Fire Safety Day with a chicken barbecue, a hilarious firefighter obstacle course and children’s activities. J’s BBQ will be open for this event only on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. […]
Teachers in the Ripon Area School District and the Lac du Flambeau School District have been honored as outstanding educators by Ripon College and the Wisconsin Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Rebecca Shackleton, a 2013 graduate of Ripon College, who is a first-grade teacher in the Lac de Flambeau Elementary School, and Paul Wiegel, […]
Take one rural Russian town, add a greedy mayor, a corrupt group of officials, and one charming con man, and you have the ingredients for a classic comic romp. Open auditions and crew call for the Ripon Summer Players’ performance of “The Government Inspector” will be held from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, April 18 […]
Twenty-six Ripon College seniors will share scholarly and artistic presentations Tuesday, April 18, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in various rooms of the C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts as part of the College’s ninth annual Senior Showcase. The showcase is a campus-wide celebration of excellence created in 2008 to recognize the dedication and passion that […]
The Ripon College Symphonic Wind Ensemble will present its spring concert this Sunday, April 23, at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center of the Arts. The 55-member ensemble will feature one of the great works of concert band literature, Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy,” a collection of radical settings of British folk songs. The other […]
The Cultural Diversity Club will host its fifth annual International Dinner as part of the club’s annual event, Culture Week, which runs Monday, April 17, through Sunday, April 23. Culture Week is a weeklong event where the multi-coalition groups on campus come together to host events that promote the different cultures and social groups on […]
Jamaica Week is being held this week by Student Volunteers for the Blue Mountain Project. The goal is to raise money for the group’s annual trip to Hagley Gap, Jamaica. On Tuesday, a fundraiser will be held at Culver’s from 5 to 8 p.m. During these hours, 10 percent of the purchases will be donated […]
Ngan Tran ’17 of Vietnam presented a paper at the spring faculty-student conference of the Wisconsin Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies held at Alverno College in Milwaukee March 30-31. She received an award for having one of the four best undergraduate papers presented at the conference, based on an evaluation by the Alverno conference […]
“Nuclear Dangers: Trust but Modernize; Trust but Verify” will be discussed Wednesday, April 19, at Ripon College. Peter Huessy, president of GeoStrategic Analysis and a leading voice in the national security community, will discuss nuclear modernization, missile defense proliferation, arms control and American and allied security. The talk will begin at 4 p.m. in Kresge […]
The art exhibit “The Press Corps: Ways of Seeing” will open at 7 p.m. Friday, April 14. The opening will begin at 7 p.m. at 314: Ripon College Project Space in downtown Ripon. Light refreshments will be served. The show will run through May 6. The artists are Lee Shippey, retired as art department assistant […]
Rebecca Matzke, associate professor of history, published a column in the Oshkosh Northwestern Sunday, April 9. The article, “100 years ago, Oshkosh went to war” details the history of Wisconsin’s involvement in World War I. Matzke writes, “Most Wisconsinites supported neutrality. Partly this was due to the state’s wide range of political movements and parties, […]
The Disability Rights, Activism and Education Movement (DREAM) will hold a Mental Health Panel and Discussion on April 18 at Ripon College. The event will run from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Dahm Heritage Room, S.N. Pickard Commons. This panel will feature students from different disciplines talking about their experiences as college students […]
Henrik Schatzinger, associate professor of politics and government, will give a Faculty Scholarship Series presentation April 11. The presentation will run from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Todd Wehr 104. Schatzinger will address “How Does Lobbying Affect Federal Contracts?” His research is being done with Aaron Dusso, of Indiana University-Purdue University, and Thomas T. […]
Students for Social Justice are hosting Sexual Assault Awareness Week this week. On Tuesday, the presentation The Power to Stop This will begin at 6 p.m. in Johnson Main Lounge. A representative from ASTOP will discuss what can be done if you are sexually victimized and how to intervene in a dangerous situation. ASTOP is […]
Naomi Ferrel ’17 of Columbus, Wisconsin, will present her senior flute recital Sunday, April 9. The performance will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Selections will be by Bach, Debussy, Mozart , Honneger and Chaminade Sarah Mahler Kraaz, professor of music, will accompany on piano.
Allwin McDonald ’17 of Milbank, South Dakota, was invited to present his senior seminar research at the German Undergraduate Research Conference at Illinois Wesleyan University March 31 and April 1. It is the only conference of this nature in the nation. It was conducted entirely in German and included a keynote speaker, poster presentations, paper […]
Mary I. Unger, assistant professor of English and managing editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to conduct research this summer. The Summer Stipends award will support Unger’s project, “Cultures of Reading in the Black Chicago Renaissance.” She describes the […]
Steven Miller, visiting professor of philosophy, has an opinion piece published in Times Higher Education. In Miller’s piece, he relates that when he talks about death in his classes, for many their own deaths seem “part of the way-off and thus not-real future.” But then a student on campus killed himself. “Few occurrences rock a […]
“Lobbying and the Trump Administration: Draining the Swamp” will be a special presentation offered April 5 at Ripon College. The program will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the campus. It is sponsored by the Center for Politics and the People. During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised […]
Rebecca Matzke, associate professor of history and associate dean for faculty development, will give a talk this evening at the Oshkosh Public Library. “World War I: The War that Shaped a Century” will begin at 6 p.m. as part of the Oshkosh World War I Centennial Commemoration.