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Four students from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's Campus Crusade for Christ will be joining students from Marquette, and roughly one thousand students from around the country in a trip to Panama City, Florida. They are Lisa Rosenberg, Casey Haen, Amber Scheel, and the Ranger News' very own Eric Zizich. Every student will be staying in hotels near the beach. This is the final conference for the group for the year. Their intent is to reach out to the community and to grow spiritually. They intend to do this through the spread of the gospel throughout the community.

March will be a month with global influence at Parkside as World Fest kicks off with some extraordinary events. According to the pamphlet distributed by student activities there will be an immense amount of activity as Parkside kicks off World Fest. From March first to March fifth there will be a display case in the library that focuses on the arrival of immigrants from 1837 up until the present day. “The Opening Flag Ceremony” will be held on March first at noon in Main Place. The ceremony will be followed by a performance from the Senegal Dance Troupe Ak Jam. At two P.M.

From Monday, Feb. 8 through Thursday, Feb. 11, the Greek societies of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside hosted Greek Week for members and students interested in becoming Greek. Activities this Greek Week included bowling, a Greek yard show, a volunteer trip to Woodstock Health and Rehabilitation Center, and a Greek panel question and answer session.

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.

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.

Wednesday night, people flooded in to see Patrick Combs in his show “Man:1, Bank: 0,” brought to Parkside by the program Arts Alive. Said to be a “fun and great speaker” by a man heading back inside after intermission, the night seemed to be quite a hit. Combs is known for depositing a 95,000 dollar junk mail check that his bank took! So now he tells the story of taking on not only his local bank, but the Feds as well.

Wikus van de Merwe has a problem: he’s turning into an alien, starting with his arm. The aliens arrived twenty years earlier, when their ship came to stop directly over Johannesburg, South Africa, and just stayed there. After a while it was decided to cut through the outer hull to see what might be inside. It turns out to be starving aliens. The aliens were evacuated to the ground, where it was discovered that they could eat some of the food from Earth (they’re especially fond of cat food).