Syverson Talks Standardized Tests Wednesday on WPR
Vice President for Enrollment Steve Syverson will appear Wednesday, Oct. 1 as a guest on the Wisconsin Public Radio program “Conversations with Kathleen Dunn” during the 10-11 a.m. hour to discuss the role SAT and ACT scores should play in the undergraduate admission process. The program can be heard on WHID, 88.1 FM or WRST, 90.3 FM. Syverson served on a commission convened by the National Association for College Admission Counseling that released its recommendations to be less reliant on standardized test scores Sept. 24 at a national meeting in Seattle. Syverson spoke recenlty with the New York Times about the commission’s report. 

New Partnership Brings Premium Milk to Campus
Lawrence has entered a partnership with Red Barn Family Farms, a new Appleton family-owned dairy company, to serve its premium brand of milk in both of the college's dining halls beginning Oct. 6. All of the milk is rBGH free and is sourced from small area farms that are certified by the American Humane Association.  Read more.

Lawrence Cited by CASE for Fundraising Efforts
Lawrence not only enjoyed a record-breaking fundraising year, but its efforts were rewarded with a 2008 Circle of Excellence Award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.   Although not a factor in the CASE award, Lawrence raised a record $31.4 million in gifts and donations in fiscal year 2007-08, an increase of 47 percent over last year’s total.  Lawrence was cited for "overall improvement" for educational fundraising in CASE's private liberal arts category based on information from 2005-2007.  Read more.  

Month-long French Film Series Opens Thursday 
For the third straight year, Lawrence will host the month-long Tournées Film Festival featuring five films in French with English subtitles.  Each film will be shown three times each at 7 p.m. in Lawrence's Wriston Art Center auditorium with an informal faculty-led discussion following each Saturday night screening.  Opening the series Thursday, Oct. 2 is Look at Me ("Comme une Image"), a Cannes and Stockholm film festival award winner for best screenplay.  Read more.

Painter Leslie Vansen Featured in New Exhibition
A mid-career retrospective of noted abstract  painter Leslie Vansen highlights the current exhibition in the Wriston Art Center galleries. The exhbition also includes "Requiem,"a series of works inspired by the pop, minimal and abstract expressionist movements from Lawrence's own permanent collection organized by art major Andrew Kincaid ’09.  Read more.

One Cold Classroom:  LU Students Study in Alaska
Three Lawrentians — Emily Thiem ’08 (pictured), Ben Kraemer ’08, and Andrew Siliski ’09 — spent their summer on Alaskan glaciers as part of the Juneau Icefield Research Program.  The program was featured in the Sunday Sept. 21 edition of the New York Times Magazine and Thiem and Kraemer were pictured in an audio slide show that accompanied the online version of the story.  (Photo courtesy of Dru Donovan).

And the Oscar Goes to…
The hard task of selecting the finalists from among 15 entries for the “More Light!” student video competition has been completed and now it’s time to pick the popular vote winner. Three teams of students produced very distinct and original videos that capture their vision of what makes Lawrence such a distinctive college. Check out each of them, and then vote for your favorite. The popular vote winner will be announced at a public screening on Oct. 17.

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