Just got 20 minutes? Time for a cup of coffee and a first page-through the Spring 2012 issue of St. Norbert College Magazine! In 20 minutes you can:
- Read what happens when a physics professor applies his discipline’s skills to his new sport of short-track speedskating– and makes it to nationals. (4 mins);
- Watch Rebecca McKean ’04 (Geology) talk about her very own prehistoric species, and the excitement of its discovery. (3 mins);
- Glance through Toy Story.
A great story about an extended alumni family and the impact they are having on the toy industry. (1 min); - Read Howard Ebert ’74 (Religious Studies) on academic freedom – great think piece, and he brings his topic right home to St. Norbert. (7 mins);
- Relish the exquisite illustrations in the diaries of the Rev. Maximilian Gaertner, O.Praem., on page 4. This Austrian Norbertine traveled throughout Wisconsin in the mid-nineteenth century almost 50 years before college founder Abbot Bernard Pennings arrived in the United States. (2 mins);
- Watch students’ reaction to their new Commons, newly open when they returned from break. (2 mins);
- Take a minute to get an hour on your calendar. Plan to watch our panel on higher education in a Catholic context. The abbot, the bishop and the college president get together – likely for the first time ever – to hash this out from their different perspectives. It’s surprisingly engaging to gain an understanding of the overlapping spheres in whicc each of them operates – and, there are even jokes! (1 min).
