March 17, 2025
Campus Services for AWE Majors and Minors
We are entering a challenging time in the semester for many students. You may have gotten a little behind, and midterms are fast approaching. Consider visiting the Wellness Center and utilizing the tutoring programs available. Asking for help may not be easy, but struggling alone isn’t either.
The UWGB Wellness Center caters to mind and body well-being. Mental-health resources, including counseling, are available to enrolled students on all campuses. Biofeedback (pictured above) is another resource available that teaches you techniques to self-regulate your body’s natural response to distress. This not only helps you deal with the expected issues you encounter but also assists in teaching coping skills to handle stressful situations as they arise.
If you have found yourself a little behind, reach out to peer tutors. You can set up an in-person or Zoom appointment through the Navigate app to meet with a tutor one on one. These tutors are students who understand what you are going through and are there to help.
Another option is to use the Brainfuse Online Tutoring offered through Canvas. These professionals are available 24/7 to assist you with getting caught up and teaching you academic skills to excel. Click on “Brainfuse Online Tutoring” in the Canvas menu for any of your classes.
All of these programs are there to promote student success. Not every lesson is learned in a classroom, and the UWGB community is there to help.
With spring break coming up March 17th through the 24th, you may have been thinking of how to spend your free time off from school. Want to do something fun but don’t want to travel far? Here are a few places at home in Green Bay you can check out for an affordable price!
If you’ve driven past the enormous glass and steel building in downtown DePere, now might be the time to go inside. The Mulva Cultural Center features arts and culture exhibits from all around the world, as well as classic films and documentary movies shown on one of only three Samsung Onyx screens in the country!
General admittance is free for Brown County residents with proof of residency from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month. Below are some of the events the Neville has going on in March. Check the website for times, charges, and other details.
If you’re on the literary scene, then chances are you’ve heard of 1984. Written by George Orwell in 1949, 1984 has stood the test of time as an absolute classic, warning readers against totalitarianism and extreme government control. This is accomplished through The Party, a political group that has successfully brainwashed the citizens of Oceania into worshipping Big Brother, the nation’s all-seeing dictator. The consequences of this brainwashing are severe. The media is polluted with propaganda. History is rewritten to favor The Party. Citizens are kept under 24-hour surveillance. Even their thoughts are policed by the aptly named Thought Police, who possess the authority to arrest a citizen for harboring negative thoughts about The Party. Society is a living nightmare, and all hints of freedom have been extinguished. But unbeknownst to them, a faint ray of hope yet remains in their bleak, uninspired world.
We was first published in 1924. The author, Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian citizen during the Russian Revolution. While he supported the equality aimed for in the Bolshevik Revolution and worked towards its realization, he disagreed with the censorship imposed on writers after the new government was in place. He requested permission to leave Russia so that he could write without censorship. But outside of Russia, he lost touch with his homeland and, with it, his primary source of inspiration. Because of this, We is his only major work. Some critics thought its portrayal of a technologically advanced Russia was too much of a stretch, considering how technologically unadvanced Russia was when the book was published. We has gained traction over the years and helped to inspire 1984 by George Orwell.We is generally considered a utopian novel, as it depicts a perfectly regulated society that has eliminated virtually all suffering. Citizens, known as numbers instead of people, are equal; there is no poverty or racism. Even jealousy has been eliminated — marriage and romantic relationships don’t exist, and sex is regulated by the government. But for me, because the society depicted in We eliminates so many things that make life good, it cannot be anything other than a dystopian novel. There are no families, no privacy, no proper literature or music or access to nature. Even the very ability to imagine comes under threat.
Centuries after the collapse of Earth, human survivors live in an artificial paradise called Eden. To preserve what little resources they have and to keep humanity alive, the government creates a law allowing each family in Eden to have only one child. But what happens in a hidden case of twins?
“The day the first corpse was discovered in the Mercer Williams House, the old town of Savannah was already a ghost.” John Berendt uses this line to introduce readers to the historic and allegedly haunted town of Savannah, Georgia. In Berendt’s nonfiction novel — and later a movie — Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil readers learn of a 1981 murder and follow its trial. This book was on the 2009 banned books list. While the ban only lasted four days, it’s a testament to its shock value and contribution to literary history.
“How you process success is going to be just as important as how you process failure.” —A’ja Wilson, MVP #22 for the Las Vegas Aces
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller
Roronoa Zoro: the green-haired, almost always shirtless, legendary swordsman from the anime One Piece which fans all know and love. With a current bounty of 1,111,000,000 berries, Zoro has millions of people out for him — but how would he act if you were out for his love instead? Would you be cut down by the three katanas he carries, or would this scarred swordsman treat you right?