Today’s Take: Student pens Press-Gazette column on importance of the arts

A UW-Green Bay student offered his thoughts on the importance of the arts in a Wednesday (Dec. 17) “Today’s Take” column in the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Thomas Alessandro, a Musical Theatre major, wrote the piece in response to the news that this will be the final season for the century-old Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. The arts bring myriad joys to our lives, Alessandro wrote. “The fine arts transport us to a different place and time that transcend the here and now,” he wrote, “and they reach deep into our soul to arouse a sense of creativity, liveliness and childlike qualities within us that remind us we shouldn’t always take life so seriously.”