RIPON COLLEGE IN THE NEWS

• “Combining Fundamental and Technical Inputs in a GARP Strategy,” an interview with Peter Tuz ’76 of Charlottesville, Virginia, and others was published on twst.com on Jan. 27, 2017. He is a Ripon College Trustee and a member of the board’s investment committee.

• President Zach Messitte has had several opinion pieces published: as a contributor to “Look to Agnew for insight to Trump,” Dec. 16, 2016, in The Baltimore Sun ; “The inauguration speech Trump won’t make,” Jan. 17, 2017, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; “Where have you gone, Elliot Richardson? We still need our leaders to do the right thing when called upon,” March 24, 2017, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

• Jack Christ, emeritus professor and director of Leadership Studies, wrote an opinion piece about fact-checking and honesty in public discourse, Jan. 10, 2017, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

• Ripon College students Jacob Kramer ’20 of Plainfield, Wisconsin, and Ben Wozniczka ’18 of New London, Wisconsin, attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 23, 2017. They were featured in a video interview expressing enthusiasm about President Trump’s first weeks in office that was published by The Washington Post online.

• Associate Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas was featured Dec. 20, 2016, in an interview on WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio. He discussed his current projects on exhibition.

• Steven Miller ’07, visiting professor of philosophy, had an opinion piece published in March 2017 in Times Higher Education. “Loans and robots are killing U.S. students’ spirits” discusses the suicide of a student on campus and death issues as students see them.

• Rebecca Matzke, associate dean for faculty development and associate professor of history, had an article about World War I published in the spring issue of the Oshkosh Public Museum’s quarterly magazine The Muse. “The Great War” also was linked to the Oshkosh Public Museum website.

She also wrote a column about Wisconsin and the U.S. declaration of war in April 1917 that was published on the front page of the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper on April 9, 2017. The article also was published in the newspaper’s online edition.

She also wrote a blog post published at Munitions of the Mind by the Centre for the History of War, Media and Society at the University of Kent. The title is “Imperialists Like Us: British Pamphlet Propaganda to the USA in the Great War.”

• Ty Sabin ’17 of New Berlin, Wisconsin, who shattered school scoring records as part of this year’s men’s basketball team, was featured in numerous media outlets, including:

• ESPN’s SportsCenter. Ty and the Red Hawks were featured in about a 30-second segment called “Lettermen” the day they won the MWC Tournament Championship.

• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel front-page feature article in the sports section

• Waukesha Freeman

• D3hoops.com Around the Region

• NCAA.com picked up the Journal-Sentinel story

• WFRV-TV, WBAY-TV, WLUK-TV, WGBA-TV (All out of Green Bay) and WISN-TV (out of Milwaukee) all had coverage of Ty and Ripon’s MBB MWC Tournament Championship.

• Men’s basketball player Jordan Stiede ’17 of Seymour, Wisconsin, was featured on WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in February 2017 for his community service involvement.

• Ripon College was included on the broadcast “Great Scott” on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee in April. Ripon College was ranked No. 2 on the 25 Best Colleges in Wisconsin for 2017 by College Choice.

• Jacqueline Clark , associate professor of sociology and chair of the sociology and anthropology department, had a guest blog published in Sociological Images, May 15. The title is “Why the American Health Care Act is bad for women’s health.”

• “To the Quarry, Together,” a first-person account by poet C. Kubasta about the collaborative work between her and Ripon College Associate Professor of Art Mollie Oblinger, was featured in the Spring 2017 magazine of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.