Recent Sightings
A crack in time
Facilities Planning and Management carpenters Don Acker, left, and Mike Knickmeier install a temporary wood brace to help reinforce the cracked glass in one of Music Hall’s four clock faces damaged during an overnight thunderstorm this past weekend. The lightning strike around 3 a.m. Saturday caused several thousand dollars worth of damage. Pressure from the strike blew a 2- by 2-foot hole in the area where the lightning entered. Pieces of charred beams were found. Photo: Jeff Miller
Memphis photographer Ernest C. Withers, standing shares large display prints of his photographs of the civil rights movement and portraits of Memphis blues musicians. Students gathered in a small conference room in the African-American Studies department with Withers and music writer Daniel Wolff after the two delivered a presentation to professor Craig Werner’s African-American Studies class. Photo: Jeff Miller
Nothing but net
Men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan cuts a net after the Badger men’s basketball team’s 74-54 victory over Michigan, which clinched a share of the Big Ten Conference Title, for the first time since 1947. The men’s team now is seeded eighth in the East Region and will face ninth-seeded St. John’s in a first-round game Friday, March 15, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Jeff Miller
Grads in the driver’s seat
Economics senior Gautham Rao, right, visits an Enterprise Rent-a-Car display presented by alumnus Srikanth Kothur at the Persons of Color Career Fair Feb. 28. More than 30 major national employers ranging from computing giant Hewlett-Packard to Teach for America, a national organization of teachers, participated in the fair in Great Hall, Memorial Union. Says Ann Groves Lloyd, director of College of Letters and Science/School of Human Ecology Career Services: “More and more, recruiters are asking for a way to connect with a diverse, qualified work force, and our Persons of Color Career Fair gives them the forum they’ve wanted.” The L&S/Human Ecology Career Services office helps students in those units and recent alumni with internship and career information; assists with planning and implementing job searches, and making career decisions; and offers opportunities for graduating students to interview with prospective employers on campus. Photo: Stephanie Judge