Campus invited to ice cream social

As the fall semester gets under way, faculty, staff and students are invited to greet each other and new Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin at a university ice cream social on Bascom Hill.

The event will be held from 4–5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 4, rain or shine. All university employees and students are invited. Bucky Badger will be on hand from 4–4:30 p.m. Babcock ice cream will be served, including a new flavor — Strawbiddy Swirl — named in Martin’s honor.

Babcock Dairy Plant manager Bill Klein says the flavor has a vanilla ice cream base with strawberry slices, strawberry marble and dark chocolate flakes in it, and it should taste like chocolate-covered strawberries.

Klein credits Joanne Poniatowski, a student employee in the Babcock Dairy Store office, for coming up with the ice cream’s name. Klein and Poniatowksi jointly chose the ingredients. Dietary alternatives also will be available at the event. There will be a limit of one dish per person, while supplies last.