1. Enron author delivers Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture tomorrow
2. Hear Dr. Lauren Leslie’s hardest choice she ever had to make
3. Philosophy and political science professors at Faculty Commons
4. Ethical Dilemmas on Film running through Thursday
5. A daily reflection: Challenged to Choose — The Courage to Act
6. Win $200 for an “A” on a class paper
7. Department of Mathematics to hold colloquium
8. Submit artwork for Haggerty Museum exhibit
9. Students encouraged to participate in online survey
10. Raynor Libraries’ newsletter features Chicago Manual of Style
11. Marquette University: 125 Years of Faith and Learning in Action
12. Haggerty Museum exhibition highlights Marquette history
13. University Ministry reconciliation service to be held tonight
14. Catholic poet Serpas to present poetry reading
15. Public Safety offers self-defense classes
16. Brew City Stomp Down celebrates Black History Month
17. Free concert tickets available from Marquette Radio
18. Relay for Life and gala planned by Colleges Against Cancer
19. Three Marquette legends selected for city birthday party
20. Students needed to serve as poll workers
21. This Week in History
22. Marquette Interchange highlights for the week of Feb. 5

1. Enron author delivers Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture tomorrow

Bethany McLean, senior writer at Fortune Magazine and co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, will present the Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Feb. 6, in AMU Ballroom E as part of the Mission Week celebration. McLean’s March 2001 article in Fortune, “Is Enron Overpriced?” broke the story of the Enron debacle. The program is sponsored by the Diederich College of Communication.

For the complete Mission Week schedule, go online.

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3. Philosophy and political science professors at Faculty Commons

All graduate students are invited to stop by the Mission Week Faculty Commons tomorrow and/or Wednesday, Feb. 6 and 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Raynor Library Conference Center. Faculty Commons gives faculty a time and place to share teaching, scholarship and research related to the many dimensions of Marquette’s mission.

Tomorrow's participants and topics include:

• Dr. Janet Boles, professor of political science: “Being Our Sisters’ Keepers: International Workplace Issues;”

• Dr. Kevin Gibson, associate professor of philosophy: “The Three Legged Stool of Responsibility: Corporations, Governments and Consumers;” and

• Dr. Theresa Tobin, assistant professor of philosophy: “Transformative Education in a Broken World.”

Lunch is provided. The program is sponsored by the Manresa Project, the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, and the Center for Teaching and Learning.

4. Ethical Dilemmas on Film running through Thursday

Marquette’s Channel 95 is broadcasting a series of films that reflect the Mission Week theme of “Challenged to Choose: the Courage to Act,” including “The Constant Gardener,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” “North Country,” and “Tears of the Sun.” Broadcasts are at 9 p.m. Feb. 4–8. Sponsored by the Office of Residence Life.

5. A daily reflection: Challenged to Choose — The Courage to Act

To take the first step toward deciding to do what is right or best, we need to recognize that a peculiar fork in the road faces us. Once we see that we can give ourselves away to someone or just pass this chance by, once we know that our next move could make us a hypocrite, the moment we can’t avoid treating life as either a worthy adventure or a meaningless joke, then we have come to the grand entrance to ethical decision. If we choose to walk through that open gate, we will still have the chance to know, in that deep place that lies beneath words, that life is good. If we decide not to hide from an ethical decision, we open ourselves to realizing what it felt like for Moses to talk face to face with God (Exodus 33:11) or for Elijah to throw himself prostrate on the ground before the still, small voice that carried the Lord’s command to love (1 Kings 19).  

Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in Today’s World pointed to something of this experience when it declared that “conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of the human person, in which he or she is alone with God, whose voice resounds in the person’s innermost reality” (section 16). We don’t have to settle for the blind faith that tries to will our parents’ or our some church’s god into existence so we can avoid suspecting that life is pointless or empty. Instead, if we honestly face the moment of ethical decision for what it is, we can experience God for ourselves as the one who, from within and beyond us, allures us inwardly out of ourselves to take responsibility for cherishing our neighbor as ourselves, our world as God’s gift, and the Generosity-in-Person who loves us all into living. The first step in making an ethical decision is to treat a decision as an ethical one. This requires of us the courage to be responsible for ourselves and for our world, and the courage to put our life in the hands of the One who is always already holding it in his palm.

— Joe Mueller, S.J.
Assistant Professor of Theology/Director of Undergraduate Studies and Majors

Reflections are sponsored by the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality.

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6. Win $200 for an “A” on a class paper

All A-grade papers written during calendar 2006 for a MU course are eligible for the Raynor Libraries' 10th Annual Dittman Research Paper Competition recognizing the importance of effective library research. One $200 prize each will be awarded in the freshman/sophomore, junior/senior and graduate/professional categories.

Submissions will be accepted until March 5. More information is available online.

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8. Submit artwork for Haggerty Museum exhibit

The Haggerty Museum of Art and the MU Art Club will present “Student Fine Arts Night,” an exhibition of work by Marquette students, with live music, free food and refreshments, on Thursday, April 12, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

The exhibition is open to all Marquette students. A maximum of two art pieces per student can be submitted. Work in all media will be accepted — painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, mixed-media, etc. Framed work is preferred, but not mandatory.
 
Accompanying each piece must be:
 
•  name of student artist
•  title of the work
•  year work was created
•  medium (such as oil on canvas)

All work must be submitted to Lynne Shumow at the Haggerty Museum of Art by Monday, April 2.

For more information call 8-5915 or e-mail.

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12. Haggerty Museum exhibition highlights Marquette history

In honor of Marquette University's 125th anniversary, the Haggerty Museum of Art will exhibit “Marquette Then and Now: Images Celebrating 125 Years of Faith and Learning in Action,” through March 25. The museum will also host a panel discussion about the university’s history on Wednesday, Feb. 7, from 3 to 5 p.m. Speakers will include Dr. Thomas Jablonsky, associate professor of history; Matt Blessing, head of special collections and archives for the Raynor Memorial Libraries; and Dan Johnson, chief photographer. A catalogue of the exhibit is available for $10.

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14. Catholic poet Serpas to present poetry reading

Martha Serpas will read from her latest book of poetry, “The Dirty Side of the Storm” (Norton 2007), at noon on Thursday, Feb. 8, at the Haggerty Museum of Art. Serpas, a Catholic poet from Louisiana, has taught at the Yale Divinity School and is on the faculty at the University of Tampa. Following Hurricane Katrina, her poetry on the disappearing bayou of Louisiana appeared in “The New Yorker” and the “New York Review of Books.”

16. Brew City Stomp Down celebrates Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month with the “Brew City Stomp Down,” an annual step show sponsored by the Marquette chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. This year’s step show will take place on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Varsity Theatre, followed by a party in Marquette Place with NPHC members.

Tickets are $12, or $15 for both the show and after party are now available. They can be purchased only in advance in the Brooks Lounge.