Wednesday, Feb. 26

7:15 a.m. Ash Wednesday Mass and Distribution of Ashes – San Damiano Chapel

12:15 p.m. Ash Wednesday Mass and Distribution of Ashes – San Damiano Chapel. Classes are cancelled from 12:20–1:15 p.m.

1–2 p.m. APA Walk-in Hours – Academic Resource Center, Murphy Center 332

The Viterbo University D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership’s spring lecture series will continue at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, as actor and historian Joe Wiegand presents “An Evening with Teddy Roosevelt” in the Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.

Wiegand is considered the world’s premier Theodore Roosevelt repriser, and his portrayals of Roosevelt in live performance, on television, and in film are amazing. Wiegand has been featured as President Roosevelt in The Men Who Built America on the History Channel, served as the model for the newest Roosevelt sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and has a feature role in National Parks Adventure, a film about U.S. national parks still showing in IMAX theaters throughout the country. He has also performed at the White House. He has been named a Wilkins Scholar, a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow.

This is one in a series of student profiles to be featured in Connections. The profiles are part of a project to articulate the Viterbo difference through storytelling.

By Michael Ranscht and Rick Trietley

The Space Allocation Committee has again been meeting regularly since the beginning of the semester. Work on the space needs survey launched last semester continues as we review current and future needs based on the strategic plan and the priorities established last semester while also looking at the historical use of spaces. Office moves continue to be regularly approved by the committee.

The priorities established in conjunction with President Glena Temple last semester include moving the student affairs staff from the current Student Development Center to other locations on campus. As a result of the committee’s work and consultation with others, the counseling staff will move to the third floor of Murphy Center so all student-focused services are in one location. The vice president of student affairs, the director of safety and security, and the student affairs administrative assistant will move to the second floor Murphy Center suite across from academic affairs, and health services will be relocated to a place still being determined.

by Mary Rieder

During the recent Celebration of Teaching and Learning, library and instructional support services staff showed off the wide array of equipment available for faculty and students to check out from the library in our tech petting zoo. The library has laptops, video cameras, audio recorders, headphones, projectors, iPads, and other equipment available for 24-hour checkout to students and employees. 

Here’s a brief list of what we have:

By Sue Danielson, health services

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) emphasizes that antibiotic resistance is a persistent health issue that can spread through people, animals, and the environment; threatens our most vulnerable friends and family members; and affects nearly every aspect of life. Given the chance, these germs will infect our bodies, take up residence in our health care facilities, contaminate our food and water supplies, and move across our communities and around the globe.  More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year, and more than 35,000 people die as a result.  Despite this the fight against antibiotic resistance, no matter how complex, is not hopeless.

According to Robert R. Redfield, M.D., director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in order to stop antibiotic resistance, our nation must realize that we are living in a time when some miracle drugs no longer perform miracles and families are being ripped apart by a microscopic enemy. Redfield goes on to state: