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It's February and that means that it is Black History Month. There are scores of multicultural activities on campus this month, including O.M.S.A.'s "Multicultural Professional Day," "The African D.N.A. Experience," The "Black History Month Speak Out," "The Study Abroad Fair," "What is voodoo?,” "The Mis-Education of the Negro," "The Parkside International Club Friendship Hour," "President of the Other America," The foreign film "XXY," "Africans and Christianity," and "Parkside's Best Dance Crew."

In this modern French film (subtitled in English), writer and director Philippe Claudel brings to the big screen a self-healing story of a woman trying to live with the pain of her reason for being incarcerated. Taking place in Nancy, France, Kristin Scott Thomas plays the bitter newly prison released Juliette who’s trying to slowly ease her way back into reality.

The UW-Parkside Rangers (8-16, 3-12 within the Great Lakes Valley Conference) faced the Lewis Flyers (15-9, 7-8 in the GLVC) for the second straight game. Their meeting last week was at Lewis University, and saw a 53-64 Parkside loss. The Rangers entered this game on a four game losing skid, and a five straight home losing streak. While it wasn’t the wire to wire game as it was in Lewis, it was another difficult loss for the Men’s Basketball team on Feb. 11 at DeSimone Gymnasium, and the Rangers fell to the Lewis University, 58-63.

Hello there. It's been a while, hasn't it? The last time I wrote anyone a letter was to let the student body know we've moved online. I'd like to think this transition is going well. It's a huge learning process for all of us, and progress is slow, but we're getting there. I haven't written one of these in forever, mostly because I was so burnt out from doing it every week. I felt like I had run out of things to say, or more frequently, I felt like I was repeating myself and starting to beat a dead horse into a pulp.

Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 4 pm, the Communication Arts building at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside will be expanded and renovated. Almost all communication classes have already been relocated to rooms in Molinaro Hall, and starting next fall the whole building will be unavailable.

Boosted by Brittany Hogen's 20 points and 14 rebounds, Parkside rose to the occasion in the most pivotal game of the season by edging out Lewis, 72-69.

Featuring a women's basketball Great Lakes Valley Conference showdown of elites, UW-Parkside (11-4) (19-5) hosted Lewis University (10-5) (14-10) Thursday night at DeSimone Gymnasium in Kenosha, WI.

There is something Parkside definitely has, and that is a variety of different classes for students to take. From a class on mythology, to gender and society classes, to a course that focuses on the Holocaust. To be more exact, it is a class that focuses on the art and literature that came as a result of the Holocaust. The course counts as an English, History, or International Studies course. It is the first and only class that teaches the Holocaust at Parkside. Taught by Professor CaroleVopat on Wednesday nights this semester, it is a very challenging and emotional course.

Joseph Pearson of the Philosophy department has decided to start a guitar club that is nonprofit, free to join, and open to all Parkside students. Up to twenty-five percent of the organization can consist of non- students, so this organization is open to the general public as well. According to Joseph Pearson, the club is brand new and, ". . .the first semester will probably be something of a trial period to work out the many details of such a club.

Parkside's MBA program does more than just study business from a distance, as current student Armin Mehic demonstrated on January 18th.

Mehic, originally from Europe, was visiting there when he met leaders of the British energy brokerage and consultancy Alfa Energy, which was interested in investigating whether to expand into the United States. Alfa Energy, founded in 1995, operates by contracting energy rates for their clients, in order to get lower prices when the market goes up.