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UWO Fox Cities stages ‘Unnecessary Farce’
Unnecessary Farce, a comedy by Paul Slade Smith, opens the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Fox Cities campus theatre season Thursday at Perry Hall in the Communications Art Center. The story features an embezzling mayor and his accountant, a couple of undercover cops and several crooks.
The production showtimes are 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday, and 7 p.m. Nov. 17 and 18. Tickets are $15 for students and seniors and $20 for adults.
Here are photos from this week’s rehearsal, which had the cast masked as a dress rehearsal precaution. (They will not be masked during performances.)
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‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ at UWO Fond du Lac
The Prairie Theatre on the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Fond du Lac campus is staging Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat beginning Nov. 10, with eight productions planned through Nov. 20.
Tickets are available to purchase 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. General admission tickets also will be available at the door beginning one hour before each performance (cash or check only). Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 seniors, faculty and staff, and $5 students and children.
Here’s the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat performance schedule:
- 7 p.m. Nov. 10
- 7 p.m. Nov. 11
- 7 p.m. Nov. 12
- 2 p.m. Nov. 13
- 7 p.m. Nov. 17
- 7 p.m. Nov. 18
- 7 p.m. Nov. 19
- 2 p.m. Nov. 20
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UW Oshkosh theatre season revs up with ‘Grease’
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh theatre department opened the 2022-23 season this week with the staging of the musical Grease in the Theatre Arts Center on the Oshkosh campus.
Grease opened Thursday and continues with shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 5 and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available at uwosh.edu/theatre/productions.
Here’s a look at the rest of the theatre season schedule:
- My Genius of Humanity: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, 8, 9, 10 and 2 p.m. Dec. 11
- Peter and the Star Catcher: 7:30 p.m. March 9, 10, 11 and 2 p.m. March 12
- The (One-Act) Play That Goes Wrong: 7:30 p.m. April 27, 28, 29 and 2 p.m. April 30
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Feast your eyes on UWO’s fall semester
Thanksgiving break means the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s 2019 fall semester is winding down. Take a look back at all the great moments–starting with move-in–students, faculty, staff and alumni enjoyed on our beautiful campus in past three months.
UWO education major researches activist athletes in children’s literature
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh secondary education major Morgan Hach, of Highland, is assembling a review of children’s books that tell the stories of activist athletes in the United States.
She wants her research to help teachers write lesson plans that resonate with students who play or watch sports. “Curriculum that students can connect to in that way is really helpful for them to be engaged in what they’re learning,” she said.
Hach said many believe that activism in the sports world is a recent phenomenon, but her research suggests another story.
“Before Colin Kaepernick was kneeling for the National Anthem, there were people like Tommy Smith at the 1968 Olympics doing a Black Power fist for the racial injustice that was happening in the United States at the time, and Billie Jean King was promoting women’s rights through sports,” she said.
The UW Oshkosh senior’s research was supported by funds granted by the Office of Student Research and Creative Activity. “It’s been amazing just having the opportunity to do this, and it’s something I know I’m gonna use in the future,” she said.
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UWO runners hit the road for cross country national championships
The 2019 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships are slated for this Saturday (Nov. 23) in Louisville, Kentucky, and three University of Wisconsin Oshkosh runners will be there.
Junior Cody Chadwick, of the Titan men’s cross country team, and senior Ashton Keene and junior Hannah Lohrenz, of the women’s cross country team, each earned an individual at-large berth into the national championships.
For Chadwick, this will be his second appearance at the men’s national championship, having also earned a bid in 2018. Chadwick’s 11th place finish at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional, hosted by UWO on Nov. 16, helped him earn his second-straight individual berth.
“I had probably the best race of my life at regionals this past weekend,” Chadwick said. “I snagged a spot individually, which is pretty cool.”
With a little more experience under his belt, Chadwick is going into this year’s nationals with a different mindset.
“This is my second time, and I now have a little more experience,” Chadwick said. “Last year I was maybe just too happy about being at nationals. So this year I am focusing on racing well. I am going in with a little bit more competitive mindset.”
For Keene, this is her first time racing at nationals as an individuals. As a freshman in 2016, she helped the Titans to a fourth place team finish at the National Championship, ironically also held in Louisville, Kentucky.
“I am really excited and its very gratifying that all my work has paid off,” Keene said. “I couldn’t think of a better way to end my cross country career than to go to nationals.”
It is the first appearance at the national championship for Lohrenz, who wasn’t expecting to earn an individual berth.
“I wasn’t really expecting it, but I am really excited and I think it is really cool to go with the other two that made it,” Lohrenz said. “It will be a good experience.”
Chadwick, Keene and Lohrenz will hit the road to Kentucky with Titan head men’s and women’s cross country coach Eamon McKenna Thursday and will have a practice run on the course at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park Friday, before the big race kicks off on Saturday.
The men’s 8,000-meter race begins at 9:45 a.m. CT, and the women’s 6,000-meter race is set for 10:45 a.m. CT.
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UWO theatre students take part in Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
Aaron Stone (left to right), theatre professor Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft, Lily Slivinski and Jordan Whitrock at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival last month.
Three students represented the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) last month in Flint, Michigan.
Some background: Each year, eight regional festivals are held around the country before a national festival in Washington D.C. The KCACTF program involves some 18,000 students each year and is designed to showcase the finest in university theatre. The UW Oshkosh students attended the Region 3 festival Jan. 11-15.
Student focus: Jordan Whitrock, a senior radio TV film and theatre arts major from Ripon; Aaron Stone, a sophomore theatre arts major from Round Lake Beach, Illinois; and Lily Slivinski, a junior radio TV film major from Neenah, were among the Wisconsin students grouped with students from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and western Ohio for Region 3. The trio took part in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions, having been nominated for their work in UW Oshkosh theatre’s production of Grease in November.
- Stone also auditioned for the Musical Theatre Intensive, working with guest professional artists and performing for an audience of peer and faculty from around the region, and was an award finalist.
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UW System President Jay Rothman announces results of free speech survey
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman announced the results of the System’s survey of student attitudes on free speech and free expression Wednesday at UW Oshkosh.
Rothman said more than 10,000 students responded to the survey, with a profile that parallels the UW System student body resulting in a solid sample with low margins of error.
“The student response to this survey was strong,” Rothman said. “It provides a foundation for us to evaluate critically what we can do better to enhance civil dialogue at our universities.”
The survey will also provide a roadmap for UW System universities to help students better understand their First Amendment rights and responsibilities.
“There’s no better place than a university for the marketplace of ideas to flourish,” Rothman said. “It’s our goal to make the UW System an even stronger voice for passionate debate and civic engagement.”
The full results of the survey are available here.
Eric Giordano, executive director of the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, which oversaw the survey, said the strong response rate meant low margins of error, typically between 1 and 5 percentage points. The error margin will differ according to each question and respondent subset, he said.
Following Rothman’s remarks, Giordano was part of a panel discussion Wednesday at UWO. A replay is available here. (Users will need to register for a free WisconsinEye account before viewing the playback.)
The panel included:
- Franciska A. Coleman, assistant professor of law and associate director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center, UW-Madison
- Rep. David Murphy, R-Greenville, chair, Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities
- Ryan Owens, George C. and Carmella P. Edwards professor of American Politics and Leon Epstein Faculty Fellow, UW-Madison
- Sen. Kelda Roys, D-Madison, member, Senate Committee on Universities and Revenue
On the survey, Giordano was assisted by Tim Shiell, professor of philosophy and director of the Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation at UW-Stout; April Bleske-Rechek, professor of psychology at UW-Eau Claire; Geoffrey Peterson, professor of political science at UW-Eau Claire; and Eric T. Kasper, professor of political science and director of the Menard Center for Constitutional Studies at UW-Eau Claire. The team was advised by a bipartisan advisory panel of faculty members, advocates and others across Wisconsin.
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UW System panel discussion about free speech set for Feb. 1
Results of a recent University of Wisconsin System survey about free speech and civil dialogue will be the topic of a panel discussion at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Culver Family Welcome Center at UW Oshkosh.
UW System President Jay Rothman will host and moderate discussion of what the survey conduced by the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service (WIPPS) revealed about students’ perceptions, rights and responsibilities.
The panel includes:
- Franciska A. Coleman, assistant professor of law and associate director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center, UW-Madison
- Eric Giordano, WIPPS executive director
- Rep. David Murphy, R-Greenville, chair, Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities
- Ryan Owens, George C. and Carmella P. Edwards professor of American Politics and Leon Epstein Faculty Fellow, UW-Madison
- Sen. Kelda Roys, D-Madison, member, Senate Committee on Universities and Revenue
The Culver Family Welcome Center is located at 625 Pearl Ave., Oshkosh.
UWO education student receives Tommy G. Thompson Center leadership scholarship
Luiza Nelson, a junior education major at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, is one of 19 students across the UW System awarded a student leadership scholarship from the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Luiza Nelson
Scholarships in the amount of $3,000 were presented to students “exemplifying Thompson’s spirit of tackling big problems through teamwork and determination to make Wisconsin a better place,” according to a release by the Thompson Center. Additionally, it said the scholarship recipients displayed dedication, inventiveness and leadership and are expected to make an impact in their individual communities.
Nelson, who was born in Brazil, grew up in South Florida and now lives in Appleton, is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in education broad-field social sciences with a minor in history. She joined the UW Oshkosh Honors College in fall 2020.
Nelson currently is the chief of staff for the Oshkosh Student Association and served as the sustainability director for OSA last year. In addition, she serves as treasurer for Kappa Delta Pi, an education honor society; and served as vice president of Aspiring Educations last year.
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Gatherings: Winter 2023
A CAPITAL EVENING: Alumni in the Washington, D.C. area helped Chancellor Andy Leavitt and Sustainability Director Brad Spanbauer ’11, ’14 MS, celebrate UW Oshkosh’s recent recognition as a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Postsecondary Sustainability Award recipient.
WELCOME BACK BASH: Food, games and giveaways all were awaiting UWO students in September at the Fox Cities campus event to kick off the new semester.
SUN-SATIONAL CELEBRATION: The sun shone brightly for Homecoming 2022 as alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and the greater community all joined in the festivities on Oct. 22. From the morning Titan Tailgate at Reeve Memorial Union to the afternoon football victory over UW-Stout at J. J. Keller Field, Titans of all ages reveled in the glorious day full of activity.
SUNSHINE AND MUSIC: Alumni showed off their Titan pride pennants and enjoyed a night out in July at Waterfest in Oshkosh.
CHANCELLOR CHAT: Students got the chance to talk with Chancellor Andy Leavitt at the opening of the Intersection on the Fond du Lac campus in September. The new welcoming space, also found on the Fox Cities campus, is intended to be especially supportive for students from historically excluded and or structurally marginalized groups.
EXPLORING OPTIONS: Students on the Fox Cities campus learned about all the opportunities UWO has to offer at the September Student Involvement Fair.
BATTER, BATTER, SWING! In August, alumnus Tom Sobieski ’67, a member of the 1967 Titan baseball team, threw out the first pitch at a Timber Rattlers game at the Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute. UWO grads enjoyed a pregame buffet during the annual alumni night at the ballpark.
MAKING MEMORIES: UW Oshkosh’s Grandparents University brought grandparents and their grandchildren to the Oshkosh campus for two days of education and exploration in July.
WE’RE HONORED: With a keynote address to the Honors Convocation, Courtney Bauder, social justice program director, kicked off the academic year with Honors College Dean Laurence Carlin.
A SPECIAL NIGHT: Acting Police Chief Chris Tarmann ‘14, captures the joy of the annual Run With the Cops event in support of Special Olympics athletes in October.
More from Titan magazine:
- ‘Playing for each other’: Depth and trust helped UWO volleyball soar in ’22
- Their own path: Four students share how they found success at UWO
- UW Oshkosh 1871 Society: New giving initiative supports scholarships for students
- Corporate connections: Alumni events strengthen Titan community
- #TitansAre: Leaders, researchers and champions
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