Dec. 14, 2016 Lifestyle[13]
In five US states, including Wisconsin, it is legal to own any non-endangered animal. However, many cities have strict regulations regarding exotic pet ownership. Several people shared their views on how to properly care for exotic pets and whether it is ethical.
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GOP students, faculty speak up Kimberly Wethal Co-Editor in Chief
Editor’s Note: *Names have been changed to protect source integrity. In a continuation from the story “‘No matter who won, we lost’” from two editions ago, three of the many conservative voices on campus take their place in the spotlight. The challenge to several states, leading to a recount, the protests in major cities and the disparity between the Electoral College and the popular vote have led many conservatives to feel uneasy about identifying as Trump supporters. They are worried about the disintegration of respectful political discourse. For the two students featured, while President-elect Donald Trump would not have been their first choice out of all 17 candidates who ran for the Republican ticket, they remain hopeful he’ll put aside his “superficiality,” surround himself with good people and uphold conservative beliefs like pro-life values. One professor found himself concerned with the idea of academic freedom and the increasing trend of one-sided conversations that take place in college classrooms. Here are their stories. Election upset Freshman Louisa Fredriksson has been “extremely lucky” that those living in the rooms surrounding hers on the residence hall floor had a spectrum of political views. But on election night a month ago, the idea of someone on the floor voting for President-elect Donald Trump over Democratic supporting Hillary Clinton set off a scene of yelling on the second floor of Fricker Hall. For Fredriksson, it was upsetting. “It’s not that I was scared, but I was kind of worried that that was going to be par for the course moving forward when people had polit-
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Jacqueline Schaefer, psychology major, has been named the winter commencement speaker for the ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17. After graduation, Schaefer says she hopes to attend medical school and enter the field of psychiatry.
Moments that make Warhawks
Commencement speaker focuses on past, present, future Nicole Aimone Assistant News Editor
For Jacqueline Schaefer, graduating college isn’t going to be the biggest moment of her life. As the December graduation student commencement speaker, her goal is to inspire other graduates to see the potential in life’s moments past, present and future, with her speech titled “Moments that Make Us.” “Something that I’ve been focused on are those moments, that when they happen, you don’t realize the impact they’re going to have on your life,” Schaefer said. “Those moments are so small and so powerful, that I really wanted to be able to just think about them and reflect on them.” Schaefer wanted to focus on the graduates present, acknowledging just how significant college graduation is in the moment, as well as the implications the big event holds for their future.
“Graduation is one of those moments that really is just the start of something new, a whole new direction,” Schaefer said. “I wanted to think about that and also looking forward into the future, and how can we create these moments.” Schaefer not only wants her au-
“I want people to feel connected, to feel like in that moment we are one big Warhawk family,” –Jacqueline Schaefer
dience to both reflect and look forward, but also feel the sense of connection “I want people to feel connected, to feel like in that moment we are one big Warhawk family,” Schaefer said. “I want people to reflect on our common experience, but also reflect on where they came from, and how much they have changed.” For Schaefer, many people and experiences shaped her as well.
Schaefer says much of her success is owed to her parents for always encouraging her to be who and what she wanted to be. This meant attending University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a psychology major and looking into the field of psychiatry. She decided to look into that field after a conversation with her father when he told her that he believed she had what it took to go to medical school. “I said, ‘Dad I really think I want to do this whole psychology thing, people are so fascinating, I want to figure them out, get inside their brains,’ and he asked, ‘what does it take to be a psychiatrist?’ Schaefer said. “He said, ‘I think you can do this.’” The decision to attend medical school came from the desire to learn more about the entire human body. “You get to spend two years in clinicals, being a part of all of those different medical fields,” Schaefer
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