| The Columns Weekly - Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 |
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| Sign Up for Alert Rockbridge |
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| Receive regular alerts and updates related to local community news by signing up for Alert Rockbridge. This system will provide you with critical information quickly in a variety of situations such as severe weather, unexpected road closures, crime alerts and parks and recreation announcements. For more information, visit the Rockbridge County website. |
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Meet a Colleague: Emmaline Nelsen |
| Emmaline Nelsen is a graphic designer in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Learn more about Emmaline in our "Meet a Colleague" feature series. |
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| 2023 ITS Survey of Students and Employees |
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| Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking opinions and various perspectives on the current state of technology services and resources at W&L. ITS will be conducting a survey beginning Feb. 1 to ensure ITS is doing its part to chart a course that addresses the challenges, solutions, preferences and access to educational and operational technology for all students, faculty and staff. For more information, simply visit the ITS page announcing the survey. |
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| View This Week's Scene on Campus |
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Associate Professor of Art History Elliott King works with Lou Langhorne ’25 to separate a yolk to make egg tempura paint.
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| American Red Cross Blood Drive |
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| The American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive on the W&L campus on Jan. 27 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in Evans Dining Hall. |
| You can sign up for an appointment and remember to enter 24450 as the zip code and then choose "Washington and Lee University Evans Hall" to see the available times. |
| After you've donated blood, you can collect a Live Well W&L Social Wellbeing (holistic) token! |
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| Featured Social Media Site |
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Foodside's “New Leaf” vegetarian menu is now available. Faculty and staff can sample the menu for the salad bar price of $5.50 through Jan. 29.
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| Come Support the Generals! |
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W&L athletics has no home events this week. Looking ahead to the week of Feb. 2-8, the Generals will have two home basketball games.
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Miami All Stars
7:30 p.m. Keller Theater/Lenfest Hall
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A wild and vivacious group, Miami All Stars will electrify the stage with a superb company of eight world-class dancers in over 20 sizzling costumes featuring the ‘Latin Fire' Miami has become famous for!
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Law School Faculty Workshop
12-1 p.m. Law School Classroom D
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The workshop will feature Jeremy Bearer-Friend from George Washington University Law School. |
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Mudd Center Speaker: John Lysaker
5 p.m. Stackhouse Theater
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Friendship is a site of non-obligatory goodwill and care that shows us how a benevolent regard for others intensifies and expands a life and in ways that expose series limits to standard distinctions between altruism and egoism.
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The Best Response to ChatGPT & AI? Solid Pedagogical Practice
12 p.m. Leyburn 119
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Join Dr. Paul Hanstedt for a discussion of effective practices in the age of AI.
Register
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Slices of Research
5:30-7:30 p.m. Salerno Wood Fired Pizza and Taphouse
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Join your colleagues in the inaugural “Slices of Research” program. Recently promoted faculty from the College, Law School and Williams School will share their research and creative work in a stimulating PechaKucha format. All faculty and staff are invited to join. Pizza and the first drink are free!.
RSVP
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Culinary Showcase Dinner
5-8 p.m. The Marketplace
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Enjoy a special dinner curated by Marketplace Supervisor Qinyao Ren. The menu will include steamed pork with rice flour, dan dan noodles, Chinese red braised pork, steamed dumplings, sichuan dry fried green beans, mung bean cake, and Chinese walnut cookies. |
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Asian-American Pacific Islander ERG - Groundhog Day Happy Hour
4-6 p.m. Napa Thai Restaurant (24 N. Main Street)
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The W&L AAPI Employee Resource Group invites AAPI faculty and staff for a Groundhog Day (Early) Happy Hour!
Jon the AAPI Maling List
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