Month: April 2020

News, Events, and Happenings on the Marinette Campus

While the Marinette campus is “social distancing” at home, the Driftwood e-newsletter will bring you tips for navigating life as an online student, as well as suggestions for entertaining yourself while you’re stuck inside.

Issue #6 Contents: 

• Campus News
• CAHSS Virtual Conference
• Northern Lights
• Important Campus Services: Textbook Returns
• Theatre & Arts
• Binge-Watch Recommendations
• Recommended Reads: Things You Save in a Fire
• Sports & Fitness
• Self-Care Corner
• Plant Care as Self-Care
• In the Kitchen with Breanne

The Driftwood is published by the Marinette campus Practicum in Literary Publishing class.

• Books Editor: Emily Burns
• Events Editor: Sierra Adams
• Food Editor: Breanne Bedgood
• Services & Self-Care Editor: Indigo Ramirez
• Sports Editor: A.J. Corey
• Theater & Arts Editor: Cassidy MacArthur

Questions or News Items? Contact The Driftwood’s advisor, Tracy Fernandez Rysavy. 

April 28-May 14, 2020

Celebrating Our Graduates: Your Help Needed! 

April 28-May 14, 2020

Spring UWGB Student Conference Going Virtual

UW-Green Bay’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is still moving forward with its spring conference that showcases student projects and research—except this time, it’s going virtual! From May 4-15, visit www.cahsseffect.org to view audio clips, digital posters, PowerPoints, infographics, and videos created by students at all four campuses across all CAHSS academic disciplines. The CAHSS Virtual Conference will also include live Zoom or Blackboard presentations, as well.

The Marinette campus will be represented with a (possible) live reading and celebration of the works in the 2020 Northern Lights Literary & Arts Journal, as well as digital community service projects around the themes of human trafficking and dating violence, from Ms. Rysavy’s first-year seminar capstone class.

April 28-May 14, 2020

2020 Northern Lights Coming Soon!

Watch this space for the digital launch of the 2020 Northern Lights Literary and Arts Journal! The Practicum for Literary Publishing class has juried the submissions and is in the process of notifying contributors and putting the finishing touches on the electronic version. You can also keep an eye on our website to view the 2020 journal as soon as it’s live.

The print version will be available this fall. (We’ll mail copies to contributors as soon as campus is open.)

Northern Lights on Social Media

The Northern Lights is on Facebook and Instagram! Please like our pages to stay connected to the journal.

April 28-May 14, 2020

Textbook Returns During Quarantine

Wondering how you’ll return your textbooks with the campus closed? The Phoenix Bookstore is offering free shipping return labels so you can return them by mail! It’s also extending the non-return period without penalty to assist with increased returns by mail. Click the COVID-19 message on the home page of the campus store website, www.thephoenixbookstore.com, for details.

April 28-May 14, 2020

In-Home Entertainment Recommendations

We all love sitting down and watching Netflix while we’re stuck in our houses during quarantine, but what are some other fun things we can watch and play? In this Theatre & Arts section, we’ll give you suggestions for games to play, podcasts to listen to, and theatre to stream, as well as Netflix and Hulu recommendations.

Discord—Easy to use and visually pleasing, Discord is a messaging platform used by gamers and students alike. You can do group voice calls, start servers with people you know, stream people’s screens, and game together!

Podcast Recommendation: Wonderful!—Join Wonderful! hosts Griffin and Rachel McElroy as they talk about things that they find wonderful and explore what makes them so good. Available on Spotify and other platforms.

Streaming Recommendation: Booksmart—High school overachievers Molly and Amy realize on the eve of their graduation that being so dedicated to academics may have caused them to miss out on special teenage milestones. They decide to try and shove four years of parties into one night, and it proves to be the best and worst night of their lives. Available on Hulu.

Game Recommendation: Night in The Woods—College student Mae Borowski has dropped out and moved back home. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be the way she left it. Her town is changing, and her friends are transitioning into adulthood faster than she can catch up. As the autumn comes and the world grows darker, Mae has to figure out what her purpose in life is and what that means for her. Oh, and there’s something strange happening in the woods. Night in the Woods is available on Steam for $15.99 through May 2nd, and then for $19.99.

Theatre Recommendation: Stratford Festival—Though the Stratford Festival, a theatre festival that runs from April to October in Ontario, Canada, has been cancelled, they are still releasing Shakespeare plays digitally through their Stratford@Home initiative! Each production runs for three weeks. King Lear is currently streaming, with Coriolanus and Macbeth to follow.

—Cassidy MacArthur, Theater & Arts Editor

April 28-May 14, 2020

Binge-Watch Recommendations

Are any of you searching for a new TV series to binge-watch? I have created a list of my all-time favorite TV shows that could make you forget what time of day it is. Most of these are on Hulu and Netflix, or, if you’re like me, you can watch new episodes as they come out on TV.

• All American (The CW, 3 seasons)—Spencer James is a rising high-school football star and A-student at South Crenshaw High, but when coach Billy Baker recruits him to join his team in Beverly Hills, Spencer’s mother, Grace, and his best friend, Coop, convince him it’s an opportunity he has to seize. Available on Netflix.

• Chicago Fire (NBC, 8 seasons)—As the firefighters, rescue squad, and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51 forge headfirst into danger, the choices they make can mean the difference between life and death. Available on Hulu.

• Chicago Med (NBC, 5 seasons)—The city’s most highly skilled medical team saves lives, while navigating their unique interpersonal relationships. Available on Hulu.

• Chicago Pd (NBC, 7 seasons)—District 21 of the Chicago Police Department is composed of the uniformed cops, who deal with street crimes, and the Intelligence Unit, which deals with major crimes. Available on Hulu.

• Dexter (Showtime, 8 Seasons)—Dexter Morgan is a Miami-based blood splatter expert who doesn’t just solve murders; he commits them too. In fact, he’s a serial killer. Available on Netflix.

• Empire (FOX, 6 seasons)—Hip-hop artist and CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lucious Lyon, has always ruled unchallenged, but a medical diagnosis predicts he will be incapacitated in three years, which prompts the sharks to circle. Available on Hulu.

• Game of Thrones (HBO, 8 seasons)—It’s the depiction of two powerful families—kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men—playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne. Available on HBO Now.

• The Good Doctor (ABC, 3 seasons)—Shaun Murphy, a young autistic surgeon who has savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join the surgical unit at the prestigious San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. Available on Hulu.

• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 16 seasons)—This medical drama focuses on a group of young doctors at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, who began their careers at the facility as interns. Available on Netflix and Hulu.

• Grimm (NBC, 6 seasons)—Portland detective Nick Burkhardt, descended from a long line of warriors known as Grimms, defends his city from magical creatures known as Wesen. Available on Google Play.

• Law and Order: SVU (NBC, 6 seasons)—The detectives that are part of the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit investigate crimes of sexual nature. Available on Hulu.

• New Amsterdam (NBC, 2 seasons)—Dr. Max Goodwin is brilliant, charming—and the new medical director at America’s oldest public hospital. Available on Hulu.

• Teen Wolf (MTV, 6 seasons)—The high-school anonymity Scott McCall was trying to break free from couldn’t have happened in a more mysterious, complicated way. Available on MTV.com.

  —Sierra Adams 

April 28-May 14, 2020

Looking for a page-turner while you’re stuck inside? Our Driftwood staff passes on some of their favorite light reading picks to pass the time while cooped up at home.

Things You Save in a Fire

by Katherine Center
Cassie Hanwell is an elite college athlete-turned-firefighter in Austin, Texas. Despite being one of the only women in her department, she fits in well, getting along with her coworkers and pulling more than her weight on the job. But at a reception honoring community leaders, the man presenting her with an award turns out to be the same guy who assaulted her a few months prior, and Cassie does the only thing she can think of—she punches him in the face. Not wanting to fire her, her chief transfers her to a Boston firehouse.
The all-male firefighting squad she meets there is decidedly old-school sexist, and they don’t take too kindly to having a woman in their midst, even one as competent as Cassie. Due to department budget cuts, the squad is told they’re going to lose one of their members, and all eyes are on Cassie—and a rookie named Owen Callahan. She’ll have to be better, faster, and smarter than Owen in a big way if she wants to keep the job she loves. While she capably knocks down every challenge her colleagues set before her, she also finds herself falling for Owen.
But her firehouse forbids their personnel from dating. Plus, if she beats him, she knows from experience that anything between them will be over and done. She’s not about to sacrifice her career and her principles for a guy. But she might just end up sacrificing her heart.
Things You Save in a Fire meets my usual rom-com requirements of being both deeply emotional and laugh-out-loud funny, but where it really stands out is in the brilliant characterization and can’t-put-it-down plot. It’s a perfect feel-good read for relaxing after finals.

—Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, Driftwood Advisor

April 28-May 14, 2020

Full-Body Workout Options

During these tough times, many people, including myself, have lost motivation to keep working out. However, summer is right around the corner, and you may still want to get ready for swimsuit season. Here are two simple yet powerful ways to get in shape in a short amount of time.

• The Orangetheory FItness chain is offering daily at-home workouts for free. Orangetheory has locations popping up around the country and features guided group workouts where participants rotate between treadmills, rowing machines, and weights, targeting each muscle group. Their Orangetheory @ Home routine uses calisthenics—plus things like towels and milk gallons rather than fancy equipment—to help tone you up into your summer body. They even offer full-body endurance workouts for people who only have a limited time to workout in a day. Highly trained instructors walk you through each workout so you don’t have to struggle. You can access their workouts online or on the Orangetheory mobile app.

• Another great way to get in shape and learn how to dance at the same time is through BollyX on Demand. This new dance workout is inspired by Bollywood, the film industry of India, and has been featured on Shark Tank. BollyX offers the help of professional dancers and workout instructors. Each dance session burns between 500-800 calories. The workouts area available on the website, as well as Roku and Amazon Fire TV. Access normally costs $15 a month, but you get over 400 dance routines. Right now, they’re running an “As Seen On Shark Tank” Sale: $15 for three months, $24 for a year, and $49 for lifetime access.

—A.J. Corey, Sports Editor

April 28-May 14, 2020

Wonky Brains and the Finish Line