Summer 2020
Dr. Warwick’s GPS Service Projects Go Live!
This spring, Professor Warwick’s first-year seminar classes took part in community service projects as part of their GPS capstone course. While the COVID-19 campus closure threw a wrench into the planning process, both GPS sections were able to adapt and overcome.
In the fall, her First-Year Seminar studied insects, so their spring service project focused on saving endangered honeybees, which pollinate crops, making them a critical part of healthy ecosystems and a functioning food and agricultural system. Their class projects included:
- A “BEE-lieve” Facebook page featuring information about why bees are important, why they are threatened, and how to make and care for mason bee houses to help preserve their populations.
Fundraising for and construction of several mason bee houses (pictured left), which provide homes for honeybees and help them shore up their populations in the local area. The group hopes to install the bee houses on campus in the fall.
Dr. Warwick also took over Bethany Welch’s Humanistic Studies seminar class after Ms. Welch transitioned to her current student advisor position. This class received a Foundation grant to hold a mini culture fair for kids with activities and a movie, but the fair was cancelled due to COVID-19. They instead created materials to raise awareness of other cultures that will be distributed around our campus and community in the fall. Students made cookbooks, DIY activity guides, and brochures. You can check them out in the Posters by the Bay PDF archive.
The Marinette campus Practicum for Literary Publishing class is proud to announce that the 2020 Northern Lights Literary and Arts Journal is now live! Check out the online version on our 
A group from that class created a video to share their research on human trafficking; group members include: Camryn Biegler, Julia Gordon, Nathaniel Ireland, Stephanie Plotzeck, and Finn Sundberg.
At the end of each school year, Marinette campus students usually showcase their class projects at our Best of the Bay events. These generally include a poster session and research presentations. Unfortunately, COVID-19 hit before we could hold Best of the Bay this year. However, campus Academic Librarian John Kuhlmann and Student IT Support Specialist Danielle Roberts found a way to publicly share these visual projects.
Podcast Recommendation: The Magnus Archives—Currently in its fifth and final season, 
Streaming Recommendation: Natsume Yujin-cho—All his life, Natsume Takashi has been surrounded by spirits that only he can see, and they’ve brought him nothing but misfortune. But when he moves to his deceased grandmother’s hometown, he discovers that she was just like him. She left behind a powerful book with the names of many spirits in it, and as Natsume finds himself pursued for the book, he decides he’s going to start giving the names (and thus, their freedom) back to each spirit, even if he has to do it one by one. 
Game Recommendation: Stardew Valley—You are trapped in a corporate, dead-end job, when you get a letter from your late grandfather informing you that he has left you his farm. You travel to the town of 
After: After is the definition of a “terrible romance movie” on Netflix, but for some reason, I found myself unable to peel my eyes away from the TV screen while it was on. I mean, it’s expected to be cheesy and to have some bad acting if it’s a Netflix original. Since the first time I decided to give it a chance, I’ve probably watched it at least another three times, just because I really wanted to. I’m still in that teen girl age where those silly romance movies make me wish I had something like that in my life. Yet, every time I watch it, I sit and ask myself, “Why do I keep watching this? The acting is so bad!” But there’s something about the plot that can just make me lose track of time and also help me forget all about the problems in my life. Available on 
The Bee Movie: Ah, an internet classic. The Bee Movie is the weirdest, funniest thing to ever involve a bee-based court case, and it’s also my trash vortex movie. I fondly remember rewatching this movie before my senior homecoming with all my friends and family perched in my living room, the adults staring in abject horror and the teenagers giggling to themselves. A paragon of internet memes, The Bee Movie is the type of movie that, when you see it available, you just have to watch it, because, yes, it’s that bad. Available on 
Bloodsport: I can’t even count the number of times I’ve caught this martial arts Jean-Claude Van Damme classic (and I use that term really loosely) on cable in the ‘90s. Even now, the magic of JCVD delivering that flying split-kick thing he does is still an unstoppable siren call on a rainy Sunday afternoon. In fact, once when the title popped up on our channel guide, my husband and I got into a frothing-at-the-mouth double-arm wrestling match over the remote. He wanted to watch some scintillating show about green home design on HGTV, and I, of course, wanted to watch the flying split-kick thing. Tragically, Jose won. Still bitter. Available on 
Napoleon Dynamite: This movie always seems to pull me in no matter what kind of mood I am in or what time of the day it is. Napoleon Dynamite is one of my favorite “terrible movies,” mainly because of the incredibly stupid humor. I personally am a huge fan of comedy movies, but this one hit the nail on the head with its over-the-top stupid comedy. From the cringy one-liners that sink into your mind where you find yourself repeating them in public places, to the immense amount of awkwardness that I, the most AWKWARD human being, can relate to, Napoleon Dynamite is the winner. If you enjoy llamas, tater tots, nostalgic Uncle Rico’s, and awkward school dances followed by multiple LOL’s, check out the 6.9/10-star movie Napoleon Dynamite; you will NOT regret it. Available for rental on 
That Lifetime Movie Where Connie Sellecca is Flying an Airplane and the Ceiling Rips Off Mid-Flight: This one is also known as Miracle Landing, or the Holy Grail of my Trash Vortex. Long ago, I started watching this one day and was forced to stop before it ended—and as this was B.D. (before DVR), I didn’t have any blank VCR tapes lying around to record the end. Being that it was a Lifetime movie, I figured it would be on ad nauseum, and I’d easily be able to catch the ending. But noooooo, I’ve never been able to find it, and it has left an emptiness in my psyche that nothing else can fill. My soul will not rest until I find out what happened to the flight attendant who was crawling around on all fours clinging to footrests and screaming, “We’re gonna make it!”
Due to COVID-19 concerns, the Marinette campus cannot accept textbook rental returns in person, so the bookstore is extending the return window by 15 days. Ship your rentals back free of charge by May 19th to avoid late fees.
Due to the recent pandemic, many people have been itching to get back outside and back in shape. Listed below are some fun ways to do both of these things at the same time, since the weather is starting to warm up.