1. Lynn Brewer delivers Mission Week keynote address today
2. Attend community service workshop
3. Ethical Dilemmas on Film end today
4. A daily reflection
5. Hans Waldenfels to speak at Wade Chair Lecture
6. Student nominations requested for Arrupe Award
7. Students can win $200 for an “A” on a class paper
8. Theology conference to be held on Abrahamic traditions
9. Faculty, staff asked to join “Supper for 12 Strangers”
10. Special deal for Family Night at women’s basketball game
11. Manresa Project to host Women’s Spirituality meeting
12. Faber Center is hosting daily retreats for busy people
13. Nonperishable donations needed for troop collection
14. Encourage students to attend anxiety disorders screening
15. Faculty and staff with dependent’s tuition need to file FAFSA
16. Memorial services for Dennis Streich planned

 

1. Lynn Brewer delivers Mission Week keynote address today

Lynn Brewer, former Enron executive and whistleblower on corporate corruption, highlights this year’s Mission Week theme of “Challenged to Choose: the Courage to Act” with her address today, Thursday, Feb. 8, at 4 p.m. in the Varsity Theatre.

During her tenure at Enron, where she was responsible for risk management in energy operations, e-commerce for Enron’s water subsidiary and competitive intelligence for broadband services, she witnessed illegal and corrupt dealings including bank fraud, espionage, power price manipulation and gross overstatements to the media, public and financial world. Since leaving Enron, she became the founding chairman and CEO of The Integrity Institute, which independently assesses and certifies corporate integrity at the request of organizations for the benefit of their stakeholders.

For the complete Mission Week schedule, go online.

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3. Ethical Dilemmas on Film end today

The series of films that reflect the Mission Week theme of “Challenged to Choose: the Courage to Act,” broadcast by Marquette’s Channel 95 ends tonight. Films include “The Constant Gardener,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” “North Country,” and “Tears of the Sun.” Broadcast is at 9 p.m. The series is sponsored by the Office of Residence Life.

4. A daily reflection  

The Gospel of Jan. 28, 2007, (Luke 4:21-30) in the liturgical readings of Catholic and many Protestant churches presents an image of the people of Nazareth attempting to hurl Jesus over the edge of the cliff on the outskirts of Nazareth after expelling Him from the Temple. The image is very appropriate as we approach Mission Week this year and consider the consequences of principled action. Christ had the courage to accept the risks and dangers that he asks us to accept as we live what Paul calls a “love that endures.” Our moral action can also impose a cost on those who love us. For instance, Mary, the mother of Jesus, must have witnessed the attack on Jesus “the son of the carpenter” and experienced a mother’s anguish for her son. In that small village, her friends were the ones attacking her son.  Pain to self and those we love is often a consequence of right action in the name of justice. It is a cost that must be paid, a cost our leader paid.
 
Those like the Enron criminals, tobacco company executives, crooked politicians, sex purveyors, unethical lawyers, medical mal-practitioners, even incompetent professors and those who are less than principled in all fields of human endeavor will not go away with new laws and external pressures. Progress will only be made and justice accomplished when each of us understands and acts according to two truths necessary for integrity and credibility. First, each of us as a person is a unique act of God and is of infinite value and instilled with gifts to be used to give glory to God through service to others. Wonderfully, as Desmond Tutu reminds us, this is how we become self, for “a person becomes a person through other persons.” Second, as John Henry Newman reminds us, each of us has a unique vocation to do what no one else can do, including Christ in his humanity who was constrained to his time and place.
 
Our reward? Ignatius showed us when he prayed, “Give me your love and your grace, for that is sufficient for me.”
 
— Dr. Thomas A. Bausch
Professor of Management

Mission Week reflections are sponsored by the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality.

5. Hans Waldenfels to speak at Wade Chair Lecture

The Department of Theology will host the Wade Chair Lecture, “Benedict XVI’s Approach to Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue,” by Rev. Hans Waldenfels, S.J., on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 4 p.m. in Cudahy Hall, room 001. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Father Waldenfels, professor emeritus of the University of Bonn, Germany, is a world-renowned expert in the theology of interreligious dialogue and author of 21 books and more than 400 other published writings.
            
In his writings both as theologian and pastor, Pope Benedict XVI has demonstrated both great learning and a brilliant intellect, and analytical power and vision. To a 21st century world threatening to break into many opposing factions, he proclaims the central doctrine of Christian faith: God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ for the salvation of all. As spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, the largest single religious community in the world, he has dedicated his pontificate especially to the work of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue.

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6. Student nominations requested for Arrupe Award

Faculty and staff are invited to nominate Marquette juniors for the Pedro Arrupe Award, presented by The Marquette University Alumni Association. This award recognizes a Marquette junior, male or female, who emulates the values and ideals of Father Arrupe, a Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1965 to 1981. He was a man of simplicity, warmth and optimism, committed to serving the poor and leading others to explore the link between faith and justice.
 
Nomination materials for the Pedro Arrupe Award are being sent to faculty and staff in campus mail. The application and essay are due on March 23. Finalists will be selected in mid-April and finalists will need to be available for an interview on Friday, April 27.

For more information call 8-4764

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8. Theology conference to be held on Abrahamic traditions

A conference on theology and philosophy, “The Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Explorations in the Abrahamic Traditions,” will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 28, through Friday, March 2, in the Raynor Library Conference Center and Alumni Memorial Union.

The conference will highlight common intellectual and religious foundations of three Abrahamic faiths in the context of inter-religious dialogue and cross-cultural discussions of philosophical and theological principles and doctrines.

Registration costs $10 for students and $25 for others if received by Feb. 15. Registration received after Feb. 15 (if seats are available) is $35.

For more information go online.

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For more information or to register, call 8-0347 or e-mail.

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13. Nonperishable donations needed for troop collection

The MU Volunteers are sponsoring a collection of nonperishable items for the military troops throughout February. Acceptable donations include cookies, peanut butter and jelly, beef sticks, coffee, crackers and cheese spread, blank CDs and DVDs, current magazines, AA batteries, powdered Gatorade mix, hard candy, gum, Tic-Tacs, peanuts, small board games, cards, razors, Q-tips, foot powder, unscented baby wipes, unscented lotion, artificial tears, pens, writing paper, envelopes, soft toilet paper, Kleenex, and sheets and blankets (single size for on top of sleeping bags). Monetary donations are also welcome, and notes and cards are a nice touch.

Items go to We Care Wisconsin, which sends the items to veterans from Wisconsin serving overseas. The MU Volunteers will also take names and addresses of those with a Marquette connection serving in Iraq or Afghanistan and share them with We Care Wisconsin.

Items are due by March 1 to Kathleen Hawkins in Lalumiere 340.

15. Faculty and staff with dependent’s tuition need to file FAFSA

Faculty and staff planning to use Tuition Remission for Dependents for the 2007-8 school year are required to file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. You must complete the FAFSA soon so it is processed and returned to Marquette by March 1. The 2007-2008 FAFSA can be completed online.

For more information call 8-7390.