1. Family Weekend reunites students and families
2. Marquette alumnus to speak on Liberian post-conflict justice
3. Acclaimed author Jane Hamilton to give a reading
4. Win an iPod for finding Father Wild
5. Hispanic Film Series features movies from Cuba, Mexico and USA
6. Haggerty Museum to spotlight Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam
7. Father Thomas Keating to speak on Centering Prayer
8. Tomorrow is Midnight Run's Miles for Meals Run/Walk
9. MARDI GRAS holding sessions for upcoming trips
10. Show off talents at Mashuda’s Open Mic Night
11. Network and enjoy free lunch at POWER Lunch series
12. Basketball announcer tryouts are next week
13. Space is limited for Ignatian Retreat
14. Half-price tickets available for Milwaukee Bucks games

 

1. Family Weekend reunites students and families

A variety of activities and events, including free access to all campus sporting events, a Friday night fish fry with Comedy Sportz, Family Weekend Mass, and a band concert at Westowne Square, will take place during Family Weekend, Oct. 5 -7. This special time provides the opportunity for students to share the Marquette experience with their families.

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3. Acclaimed author Jane Hamilton to give a reading

Best-selling author Jane Hamilton, whose novels have twice been selections of Oprah’s Book Club, will give a reading at Marquette on Monday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium for “Wisconsin Authors Night.” The event is part of the Wisconsin Book Festival and will also feature Marquette authors C.J. Hribal, Angela Sorby and Larry Watson, as well as Ben Percy, formerly on faculty at Marquette. Admission is free and a reception and book signing will follow.

Jane Hamilton is best known for The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Both books have been selections of Oprah’s Book Club. Her following work, The Short History of a Prince, was named a Publishers’ Weekly Best Book of 1998. Her newest book is When Madeline Was Young.

4. Win an iPod for finding Father Wild

The annual MUSG Student Forum, which gives students a chance to ask questions of Marquette President Robert A. Wild, S.J., Provost Madeline Wake and Senior Vice President Greg Kliebhan, will be held Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the first floor of AMU.

Life-size posters of Father Wild are hidden around campus. Students can go online to register where they saw a Father Wild poster and automatically be entered for a chance to win an iPod. Students must be in attendance at the forum to win the iPod.

For more information, contact Brock Banks, MUSG president.

5. Hispanic Film Series features movies from Cuba, Mexico and USA

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the journal Caribe will hold the second annual Hispanic Film Lecture Series from Monday, Oct. 8, to Thursday, Oct. 11. All screenings and discussions take place in William Wehr Physics 153 beginning at 5:30 p.m. A discussion will follow each showing. The event is free and open to the public.

Showings are:

Monday, Oct. 8, María Antonia (in Spanish with English subtitles) — A story of love, passion, resentment and revenge in pre-revolutionary Cuba, with parallels between Catholicism and Afro-Cuban religion.

Tuesday, Oct. 9, El Laberinto del Fauno (in Spanish with English subtitles) — Set in post civil war Spain, an allegorical story of a girl bridging her fairy tale tasks with the reality of her brutal stepfather, an Army captain hunting rebels.

Wednesday, Oct. 10, Indigenous Always (in English) — The life and legacy of a 16th century Indian woman and her role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico as the mother of Hernán Cortés’ son.

Thursday, Oct. 11, El Violín (in Spanish) — An 80-year-old musician and his family outsmart their oppressors to support the guerrilla efforts of the peasant uprising.

For more information, contact Dr. Armando González-Pérez, professor of Spanish, at 8-7268.

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6. Haggerty Museum to spotlight Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam

The Haggerty Museum of Art will host an exhibition of the first American retrospective of Cuba’s best-known surrealist, Wifredo Lam, from Oct. 11, 2007, to Jan. 21, 2008.

“Wifredo Lam in North America” features more than 60 drawings and paintings from North American collections that best represent the different phases of Lam’s career. Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, adjunct curator, Studio Museum of Harlem and visiting professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Hunter College, will deliver the opening lecture, “Wifredo Lam and the New York Art Scene,” at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 11, followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public.

 “Wifredo Lam in North America” includes works from North American museums, galleries and private collections across the United States and the Caribbean. 

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8. Tomorrow is Midnight Run's Miles for Meals Run/Walk
 
The 8th Annual Miles for Meals Run/Walk tomorrow, Oct. 5, in the campus central mall, benefits the needs of the hungry and homeless people living in the community around Marquette.

The $15 registration fee includes a T-shirt and entry into a raffle drawing. Day-of registration begins at 4:30 p.m. followed by the run/walk at 5 p.m.
Donations of mustard will also be collected for Noon Run.

Jeanna Salzer will sing at Brew Bayou for post-race entertainment.

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13. Space is limited for Ignatian Retreat

Rev. Larry Gillick, S.J., will lead the Ignatian Retreat, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, from Nov. 9 to 11. The retreat is open to graduate and undergraduate students.

Gillick is best known for his work at Creighton University as director of the Delgman Center for Ignatian Spirituality, his work as a spiritual director and his writings on the Creighton Collaborative Ministry Web site. 

For more information and to register, go online. Registration closes Friday, Nov. 2. Space is limited. Cost is $45.