St. Norbert College students discuss Washington Semester on the "Conversations from St. Norbert College" television show

beginning Friday, Oct. 5, 2007

From St. Norbert College, September 25, 2007
by Jordan Vater, jordan.vater@snc.edu, (920) 403-3089

St. Norbert College students Stephanie Birmingham and Jessica Manier will be the special guests during the October "Conversations from St. Norbert College" television show, hosted by Dean and Academic Vice President of the College Michael Marsden. They will discuss their experiences from the spring 2007 semester spent at American University in Washington D.C., as well as "Friends for Wheels," an organization they helped start at St. Norbert College.

Both Birmingham and Manier spent the spring semester at American University, becoming the first St. Norbert College students with disabilities to attend the program. The Washington Semester provides opportunities for internships in politics, justice, and environmental policy to students from colleges and universities across the country.

"Conversations from St. Norbert College" is broadcast every Friday in October beginning Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m. New shows appear the first Friday of each month. The series airs on TWCT Time Warner Cable Television Channel 4 in Green Bay, Howard/Suamico, and Seymour; Channel 4 in the Fox Cities; Channel 2 in Neenah/Menasha, and on NET cable Channel 46 in Pulaski.

The show also airs on St. Norbert College Channel 5 in De Pere, Ashwaubenon and Bellevue Sundays at 10 a.m., Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

The show may also be seen on Wisconsin on Demand (WIoD), Time Warner Cable's local video on demand channel 1111. It is all local, all the time and available free to Time Warner Cable's digital cable customers in 70 communities in northeast Wisconsin.

"Conversations from St. Norbert College" is also airing in Milwaukee, Marshfield, Wausau, Wisconsin Rapids and Upper Michigan.

More information on the show can be found by visiting the show's web site at http://www.snc.edu/communications/conversations/.