NEW Leadership Wisconsin
By MADELENE BIRENBAUM On June 25-28, the Women’s Leadership Institute at Mount Mary College will help students transform their lives outside of the classroom through NEW Leadership Wisconsin, an award-winning, bi-partisan program for emerging women interested in public office and/or leadership roles. Compromised of speakers, workshops and lectures, the conference gives attendees lessons on networking [...]
Spanish, French or Italian: It’s all Greek until you take a foreign language class
May 1, 2013 No Comment
By HANAKO KATO In today’s global economy, knowing a foreign language is “très bien” within a rapidly evolving job market. According to the Connecticut State Study (2007) on “The Benefits of Second Language Study,” most respondents answered in a survey of 581 alumni of The American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz. they had [...]
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By CHRISTINA CARAYANNOPOULOS Dress-up and make-believe have found their way into adulthood in the form of live action role playing. LARPing consists of costumes, storylines, characters and adventures, and is becoming increasingly popular in the Milwaukee area. Anne Zellmer, an avid LARPer with more than 15 years of experience, is the mastermind behind the Midwinter [...]
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By SHANTAE CHAPMAN What does a math professor do with students who are more trigger-happy to start spring break than to start trigonometry? Get them outside the classroom! Just before the start of spring break on March 26 at Mount Mary College, Dr. Suzanne Caulfield, mathematics professor, decided to get her pre-calculus students up and [...]
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By DENISE SEYFER “On a family vacation near the Wisconsin Dells, Sasha Walters was raped by a 16-year-old boy staying with his family at a nearby cabin. She was 13. ‘I lost forever the person I was before that day. I learned that rapists take what they want, even if they look like – or [...]
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By MADELENE BIRENBAUM At the age of 29, Mount Mary College alumna Jessica Lueck has already achieved successes in the workplace that take many decades to accomplish. Lueck graduated from Mount Mary in 2007 with a bachelor of arts degree in English professional writing, and is now vice president of marketing and communications in the [...]
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By CRISTINA DE LA TORRE “One out of eight couples married in the U.S. met via social media,” according to Social Media in 7 Minutes, a series of online training videos about implementing social media marketing plans to small business owners. Online dating sites have become a mainstream venue for meeting a future mate. Though [...]
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“I wanted to give back to the college for what they had done for me.” Kathryn Maegli Davis, Mount Mary College alumna, trustee By SHANNON VENEGAS Some Mount Mary graduates have gone on to teach. Others have travelled to foreign countries and learned new languages. Some have become novelists, while others devoted their life to [...]
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