Campus Highlights
THINGS Wild and Free Incoming WLC freshmen have traditionally been assigned a book to read over the summer the “campus read” - which they begin discussing as part of their orientation weekend and College 101 course. This past year, with new general education requirements in place for students, the campus read became part of a second-semester course for freshmen titled “Liberal Arts Seminar.”
Boehlke talked about how we are now faced with environmental problems that the author couldn’t have anticipated. He said that mankind is put in charge of
What remains the same is Panel participants that the college’s Academic Dr. Paul Boehlke, Dr. Nick Schmal, and Jason Nickels Co-Curricular Committee develops additional the creatures of the earth and programming to support each the resources by God. We are year’s book selection, which for accountable to Him; we are not left 2019-2020 was A Sand County to do as we please. He said that Almanac by Aldo Leopold. to fulfill the ecological imperative in Scripture is impossible, but we WLC welcomed Dr. Paul Boehlke, should strive to do it. professor emeritus of biology, back to campus for a panel discussion Following his talk in front of about of Leopold’s land ethic and the 60 people, Boehlke was joined by Christian ecological imperative on Jason Nickels, whose experiences March 2 in the Raabe Theatre.
include field research at Mequon Nature Preserve, and Dr. Nick Schmal, a former WLC professor who has worked with government agencies such as the USDA Forest Service. WLC professors Dr. Angela Ebeling ’99 (associate professor of biology) and Dr. Dan Ebeling ’98 (professor of chemistry) moderated the discussion. Dr. Schmal said: “Through natural resource management, I understood what a land ethic could be. As far as an ecological imperative goes, I felt I was able to exhibit a management style on public lands that hopefully shadowed what God wanted me to do.” Dr. Angela Ebeling concluded: “God has given us directive to care for the world, out of respect for Him and out of love for our neighbor. Dominion over the creatures and nature doesn’t mean we do what we want.”
Business Students Network with Alumni - Prof. Heather Stelzer, assistant professor of business, with support from the Office of Alumni Relations, hosted a networking event on February 24 for the 29 students in the business capstone course. Alumni volunteers returned to campus to give students practical, real-world business advice.
