The Boston College
Chronicle Published by the Boston College Office of News & Public Affairs september 20, 2012 VOL. 21 no. 2
INSIDE •BC joins Operation Hat Trick, page 2 •Q&A with FYC speaker Dan Barry, page 3
•BC retains spot in US News rankings, page 3 •Memories of a 100-yearold grad, page 4 •C21 Center focus is “Handing on the Faith,” page 5 •New OIP director takes global view, page 5
Mass at Fenway Park
‘Grand Event’ Launches Sesquicentennial Celebration By Sean Smith Chronicle Editor
On a near-perfect early autumn afternoon, two venerable Boston institutions united last Saturday for a memorable event invoking tradition, history, faith, service and community, as 150-year-old Boston College held a Mass at centuryold Fenway Park to formally launch the University’s Sesquicentennial Celebration. The Mass, which also marked the start of BC High’s 150th anniversary commemoration, was attended by some 20,000 people, who filled the stands all along Fenway’s first base side and behind home plate. The focal point of the event was a temporary stage on the edge of the infield, where University President William P. Leahy, SJ, celebrated the Mass, joined by Professor of Theology Fr. Michael Himes — whose homily was widely
Eucharistic ministers helped distribute Communion to the some 20,000 people who attended the Mass. More photos at www.bc.edu/ chronicle. (Photos by Gary Gilbert, left, and University President William P. Leahy, SJ, celebrated Mass at Fenway Caitlin Cunningham) Park in commemoration of Boston College’s Sesquicentennial.
praised — and nearly 100 Jesuits and alumni priests as concelebrants. Boston Archbishop Cardinal Sean O’Malley, OFM, Cap., presided. “Today’s Mass has been a grand event, and a wonderful way to start our Sesquicentennial,” said Fr. Leahy, toward the end of the event. “I am grateful to all those who worked so hard and did so much to enable us to enjoy this very special day.”
Williams says ‘scavenger receptor’ marks body’s immune response
•Pops on the Heights hits 20th year, page 6 •BC Law student speaks at DNC, page 6
•Humanities Series begins Oct. 3, page 8
“We still need the giants of Catholic education to help form new disciples in the church. The involvement of BC with the renewal of our Catholic schools has made a huge difference. BC has been a very important part in the history of our local church and we are all delighted to be a part of this magnificent celebration in Fenway Park.” Continued on page 4
Biologist Sees Molecule as Key in HIV Impact
•Promising signs for HEALTHY YOU, page 6
•Concert aids school for kids with cancer, page 8
Archbishop O’Malley praised the legacy of BC for its role as a champion of early Irish immigrants facing anti-Catholic prejudice in Boston, and for its continued support of the Catholic Church’s mission. “In the days of Fr. McElroy, it wasn’t easy to be a Catholic or immigrant in Boston, and it isn’t easy today,” he said, referring to BC founder John McElroy, SJ.
Fr. Emmanuel Mwerekande MA’06. (Photo by Ed Hayward)
Faith, Hope and Water BC alumnus is determined to improve life for a parish in the Ugandan village of Mubende By Kathleen Sullivan Staff Writer
Alumnus Emmanuel Mwerekande is a Catholic priest who is striving to bring hope and life’s basic necessity — clean water — to Our Lady of Fatima parish in the village of Mubende in the predominately Catholic nation of Uganda. The parish — with 45,000 members, 49 sub-churches and 15 Catholic schools open to children of all faiths — is a vibrant faith com-
munity, with about five weddings a month and more than 2,000 baptisms a year. This year, 620 children made their first Communion on Holy Thursday. Fr. Emmanuel recalled the day that access to clean water became so important to his ministry. He was visiting a woman sick with HIV/ AIDS when he realized that the medication she was taking was being washed down with filthy, buginfested water. Continued on page 5
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A small molecule continues to speak volumes about the devastating impact of HIV infection on the health of patients living longer lives through the successful use of antiretroviral drugs, according to new research from the lab of Professor of Biology Ken Williams. In a recent study, the molecule – known as CD163 – helped Williams and colleagues from Harvard Medical School make the connection between body’s immune system response and the increased incidence of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Known as a scavenger receptor, CD163 is shed during the activation of monocyte and macrophage cells as part of the body’s immune response to HIV infection. Dispatched by the immune system to combat infection, monocytes enter tissue and exit as macrophage cells. In earlier research, Williams and his lab have shown CD163, a protein molecule within these infection-fighting cells, serves as a valuable biomarker for the effectiveness of HIV antiretroviral (ARV) therapies. The new study of 80 HIVpositive patients demonstrated for the first time that arterial inflammation occurs at a 60 percent higher rate in HIV-infected patients compared to non-HIV patients with similar risk profiles. Three-dimensional images obtained through PET imaging revealed telltale CD163 and macrophage infiltration in arterial walls Continued on page 3
“The night we were playing our first game, I got elected captain right in the locker room. A defenseman, Owen Mullaney, popped up all of a sudden and said, ‘We ought to have a captain. Bill put this whole thing together, so he should be our captain.’ We had some fun and it went on from there.” —Bill Hogan ’33, who helped revive BC hockey, page 4
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The annual Student Involvement Day, held Sept. 7 on Linden Lane, brought out Boston College’s some 230 student clubs and organizations to attract new members. Right, (L-R) Christopher Samuel ’14, Keane Johnson ’13 and Peter McDermott ’15 touted Boston College Crew while, below (LR), Anthony Marte ’14, Michael Lim ’13, Ashley Tran ’15 and Jonathan Mott ’14 of the Madrigal Singers of Boston College offered an impromptu sample of the group’s musical talent.
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Boston College seems to be a very good fit for Teach for America: In the program’s fifth annual ranking of schools contributing the greatest number of graduating seniors to TFA, BC placed fourth among colleges and universities in the “medium” category (3,000-9,999 undergraduates). Fifty-three members of the Class of 2012 joined the program’s teaching corps, and 10 percent of the class applied to TFA. Since TFA began in 1990, 307 BC alumni have taught through the program. Northwestern, Harvard and Georgetown were the top producers of TFA recruits among medium-sized institutions. Others in the top 20 included University of Pennsylvania (sixth), Dartmouth (seventh), Brown (10th), Yale (11th), Duke (12th), Notre Dame (18th) and Tufts (20th).
The Boston College Bookstore and BC Athletics have joined forces with colleges around the country for Operation Hat Trick (OHT), an effort to support the recovery of wounded soldiers and veterans through the VA General Post Fund through the sale of special merchandise. Now available at the campus bookstore locations are two styles of OHT hats, both in the BC colors, with the Boston College and Operation Hat Trick logos. A third in camouflage style is due in January. The hats are produced by collegiate headwear manufacturer ’47 Brand. The merchandise has proven popular after only a few weeks of availability, and BC Bookstore Director Bob Stewart is optimistic that patrons will continue to rally behind this initiative in support of injured service men and women. The program “‘gives back’ to those who serve our country,” he said.
A percentage of the proceeds from OHT merchandise sales goes to the Veterans Administration Medical Center’s General Post Fund, which assists patients and their caregivers. All 152 centers nationwide receive assistance from the fund. Created in 2007 by the University of New Hampshire, Operation Hat Trick [www.operationhattrick.com] went national last January, and is a collaboration between The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) and CLC partners, some 75 institutions. The BC Bookstore and Athletics also will team up next month to support the “Wounded Warrior Project,” with merchandise available at the Oct. 27 BC-Maryland football game at Alumni Stadium. For more details, see the bookstore web site at tinyurl. com/5rmjmhc —Rosanne Pellegrini
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Celebrating entrepreneurs Boston College alumni working in the fields of venture capital and tech start-ups came back to campus this week for Entrepreneurship Week, a series of events sponsored by the Boston College Technology Council and the Carroll School of Management. The highlight of the week is “Silicon Valley Comes to the Heights”, which takes place tonight from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Fulton Honors Library. The event features Bill Clerico ’07, co-founder and CEO of West Coast start-up WePay, James Reinhart ’01, co-founder & CEO of thredUp, Peter Bell ’86, a partner at venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners, and Pat Grady ’04, a partner at Sequoia Capital. The discussion will be moderated by Dan Nova ’83, also a partner at Highland. “The goal of that panel is to expose students to the special culture and uniqueness of Silicon Valley in particular, and opportunities in tech more broadly,” said CSOM Associate Professor of Information Systems John Gallaugher. The week’s events also in-
clude tomorrow’s “Young Entrepreneurs’ Day,” which takes place throughout the day in Fulton 250 with students getting to spend an hour with Clarico (9 a.m.), Brooke Brown ’05 (10 a.m.), of Rent the Runway, Seth Priebatsch (3 p.m.), founder and “chief ninja” of SCVNGR/LevelUp, and the team behind Jebbit (2 p.m.) — Tom Cobhurn ’13, Chase McAleese ’13, and Jonathan Lacoste ’15 — who launched the brand engagement start-up last year. —Ed Hayward Read Aloud, Boston College’s popular volunteer reading program in area schools, is looking for participants for the 2012-13 academic year. Through Read Aloud, about 60 or 70 BC employees volunteer each year to visit four Boston schools and read a book out loud in classrooms to students from kindergarten to grade four. For more information, see www. bc.edu/content/bc/offices/comaf/ community_affairs/Volunteer/ readaloud.html
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The celebration of BC’s Sesquicentennial anniversary has turned the attention of the campus community to the University’s history, which has been powered since its earliest days by drive, determination and dynamic personalities—but not always by electricity. This semester, the “Got Green?” communication campaign to keep conservation top of mind with the University community has moved away from the popular “green mustache” poster series and placed the spotlight on BC’s founding building, which was far removed from today’s campus both in its location in Boston’s South End and in the fact that it was, in contemporary parlance, “unplugged.” The new poster’s intent, according to organizers in the Office of News & Public Affairs, which oversees the “Got Green?” awareness campaign in conjunction with the Office of Engineering and Energy Management, is to remind members of the BC community that one way the University’s founding mission to make a difference in the world can be carried out today is by being mindful that energy consumption takes a toll on the environment and, potentially, on future generations. As always, students, faculty and staff are encouraged to help Boston College reduce its carbon footprint, as well as help contain the rising electricity and other energy costs that increase the cost of overall operations. Easy-to-follow tips for conserving energy on a daily basis can be found at www.bc.edu/green.
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Q&A: Dan Barry
Telling the Story ‘In Human Terms’
Williams Researches HIV Continued from page 1 susceptible to rupture. In addition, that arterial wall inflammation in HIV patients increased independent of traditional risk factors, giving further weight to the infiltrative role of activated monocytes and macrophages in the upper aorta. The findings reveal there is a general activation of the immune system in patients and, in particular, macrophage inflammation in HIV patients that correlates and likely drives cardiac disease, said Williams. This activation persists despite the fact that antiretroviral therapies successfully halt the progress of HIV. “What we’re finding in the HIV field is that effective antiretroviral therapies keep the virus counts low, which is crucial for these patients,” said Williams, whose research is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke. “But we’re seeing an increased level of chronic immune activation which we can now connect to damaging inflammation and arterial plaque. These are silent killers and it’s crucial we learn as much as we can in
Dan Barry addresses the Class of 2016.
looking for. Sometimes I’m working off a big news event – like Hurricane Katrina or the tornadoes – where I look for the people who might not be at the center of the story. I’m looking for a different way to tell the story in human terms. I’m more interested in finding people living the events of the day and seeing it through their eyes. I also like the small moments that can say something different about the human condition: What unites us? What separates us? What was it that told you there was a book to be written
about a minor league baseball game played 31 years ago? I lived in Pawtucket while I worked for the Providence Journal; I lived about 400 yards away from McCoy Stadium, where the game was played. And I used to hear things now and then about the game, about the players who were involved in the game. I’m kind of a packrat when it comes to anecdotes. I collect the bits and pieces. Then there was a children’s book written about the game and when I looked at that I realized the game started on Holy Saturday and lasted well into Easter Sunday.
Biology Professor Ken Williams with Research Assistant Professor Tricia H. Burdo: “What we’re finding in the HIV field is that effective anti-retroviral therapies keep the virus counts low, which is crucial for these patients.”
order to arrive at new therapies.” Specifically, patients with HIV display a high prevalence of non-calcified coronary atherosclerotic lesions that are increased in association with markers of macrophage activation. The finding is significant because earlier studies have shown that monocyte and macrophage infiltration of the linings of tiny blood vessels contributes to the development of atherosclerotic plaque that is susceptible to rupture. The connection between macrophage and monocyte activity and cardiovascular disease sheds new light on the specific links between CVD, the immune system, HIV and antiretroviral therapies, according to the researchers. While ART drugs have suc-
Freshmen en route during the “First Flight” procession from Linden Lane to Conte Forum prior to the First Year Convocation on Sept. 13. (Photos by Caitlin Cunningham)
It was played in a nearly empty stadium and the guy whose hit won the game never made it to the major leagues. You didn’t have to be a Jesuit to put two and two together and see that there were themes there that were larger than the game, that were about life. Read the full Q&A at www.bc.edu/chronicle
BC Holds Steady at 31st in Latest US News Rankings
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Boston College formally welcomed the Class of 2016 on Sept. 13 with the ninth annual First Year Convocation, which was preceded by the “First Flight” procession of the freshman class from Linden Lane to Conte Forum. The guest speaker for this year’s convocation was Dan Barry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a columnist for the New York Times, and author of Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball’s Longest Game, which was the summer reading selection for incoming freshmen. In addition to speaking at the convocation, Barry visited with faculty and students while on campus and spoke with Ed Hayward of Boston College Chronicle about the stories he searches for across the country and what compelled him to write about the 1981 game between the minor league Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings. Writing the This Land column has taken you across the country to report on a broad range of issues and individuals. Describe the story you are
cessfully stabilized patients by suppressing many of the deadly effects of HIV and the subsequent onset of AIDS, the Williams lab has shown monocyte and macrophage activity are connected to debilitating illnesses, such as dementia and, now, cardiovascular disease. In addition to Williams, the research team included BC Research Assistant Professor of Biology Tricia Burdo and Harvard Medical School researchers Sharath Subramanian, Ahmed Tawakol, Suhny Abbara, Jeffrey Wei, Jayanthi Vijayakumar, Erin Corsini, Markella V. Zanni, Udo Hoffmann, Janet Lo and Steven K. Grinspoon. Contact Ed Hayward at ed.hayward@bc.edu
Boston College placed 31st among national universities in the 2013 US News & World Report survey, retaining its ranking from last year. The University was bolstered by increased faculty resources, a strong two-year assessment from high school guidance counselors, and improvements in academic reputation and admission selectivity. Boston College also maintained its rank of 39th in the “Great Schools at Great Prices” ranking, reflecting the University’s commitment to need-blind admissions and to meeting the full demonstrated need of all of its accepted students. In addition, BC’s Carroll School of Management maintained its rank of 24th in the “Best Undergraduate Business Schools” survey. Provost and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza said he was pleased with the 2013 US News rankings and the positive way in which Boston College continues to be viewed among top national universities. “Once again, Boston College has been ranked among the country’s best universities by US News and World Report, and I am pleased that the accomplishments of our faculty and University community have been recognized,” said Garza. “It is noteworthy that despite the fluctuations that have been part of
the financial and higher education landscape of the last several years, BC has seen steady improvements in its academic reputation. “Moreover, our collective commitment to increase the number of smaller classes at the University was key, and I congratulate all who were involved in this effort. We remain determined to press forward and serve our students with the energy and dedication they deserve, and we believe that families are responding as more and more of them seek to be a part of the BC experience.” In addition to the US News rankings, Boston College placed 26th in Forbes magazine’s annual list of “America’s Best Colleges,” released in August. US News’ rankings of all colleges and universities can be accessed online at www.usnews.com. —Jack Dunn Boston College is included in another “New Ivies” list of the top 10 “rising stars of higher education,” this time by college resource guide and student platform Unigo. The University previously was named to the first-ever “New Ivies” list, published in 2007 by Kaplan/Newsweek.
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Music by Boston College and BC High performers, left, and the homily by Theology Professor Fr. Michael Himes were among the highlights of last Saturday’s Mass at Fenway Park. (Photos by Lee Pellegrini and Caitlin Cunningham)
Continued from page 1 On this day, Fenway — in the midst of its own centennial celebration this year — was transformed into a satellite campus of BC, as administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and parents of current and former students from the University congregated in the legendary ballpark. The event offered a snapshot of the face of the BC community across generations, from hearty senior citizens to dozing infants; attire ranged from suits and ties and formal dresses to casual polo shirts and shorts, with an occasional pair of torn jeans and dyed hair glimpsed among the crowd. Many members of the BC and BC High communities had key roles in the Mass, such as BC Trustees Chair Kathleen McGillycuddy NC’71, who gave the first reading. The University Chorale, the Liturgical Arts Group, the School of Theology and Ministry Liturgical Choir and the BC High Liturgical Choir provided the music. Undergraduate Government of Boston College President Christopher Osnato ’13, Tatiana Cortes ’14 — a Mission Hill native who earned a four-year Gates Foundation Scholarship to attend BC — and BC High Student Council President Daniel Dougherty offered the prayers of the faithful. Some 200 Eucharistic ministers, including faculty and staff as well as students, assisted in distributing Communion. Fr. Himes’ contribution was easily one of the most appreciated. He spoke about the vital connection between Jesuit tradition and the educational and formational mission of Boston College. “What you and I and God have in common is that we are all human,” he said. “To be like God, you must be more human. To be more human, you must help others, and give of yourself and your talents. And that means being educated — it is how Jesuit education has formed others for 500 years.” Fr. Himes described what he called the “unshakably central” tenet of Jesuit education. “What
you hold onto, you lose. What you give away, you never lose,” he said. “The reason to be educated is to teach someone else. You never grasp the fruits of your education until you give it away. “So, I say to you: Give it away.” “Fr. Himes hit it out of the park,” commented Archbishop O’Malley when he began his remarks.
Following his remarks, Archbishop O’Malley is congratulated by Fr. Leahy. (Photo by Gary Gilbert)
Following the Mass, some in the crowd lingered to take in the sights at Fenway, going on tours of the fabled Green Monster or other parts of the ballpark, or relaxing and socializing in the concession area. Many of those attending were clearly buoyed by the day. “It was just a very special day all around,” said Steve Dmohowski ’74, son of the late Stanley Dmohowski, who taught accounting at BC for more than 50 years. “The music was beautiful, the words Fr. Leahy, Fr. Himes and Archbishop O’Malley spoke were memorable — I was very happy to be here.” “I wouldn’t have missed it,” said George Markt MA’86, whose daughter Brooke is a junior. “It was even better than we expected. I think the archbishop just brought everything together with his remarks, when he talked about BC’s mission then and now.” College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Colin Pavano had an insider’s view of the event as a member of the University Chorale.
“This was a lot of work, and a little nerve-wracking, because we only had one rehearsal with everyone together — and that was today,” said Pavano, a resident of Avon, Conn. “But everything was worth it, especially Fr. Himes’ homily.” Pavano’s friend and fellow sophomore Ted Raddell, whose family had journeyed from their home in Wickliffe, Ohio, for the weekend, was impressed by the sheer magnitude and make-up of the audience. “It was a day for the BC community, not just us the students but the faculty, the priests, the alumni. This was truly BC ‘for everybody.’” For Don and Kelly Naugler, parents of two BC alumni and a junior in the Connell School of Nursing — who performed with the Chorale during the event — Fr. Himes’ homily resonated in a very personal way. As Kelly explained, a family friend who graduated from the Connell School helped deliver four of their five children: “She definitely gave us the benefit of her education at BC.” Contact Sean Smith at sean.smith@bc.edu
SESQUICENTENNIAL CALENDAR •Oct. 5: Sesquicentennial Academic Symposium, “Education and Its Role in Democratic Societies” •Oct. 10: Sesquicentennial Speakers Series with Harvard University President Drew Faust •Nov. 8-9: Sesquicentennial Academic Symposium, “Religion and the Liberal Aims of Higher Education”
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At age 100, William M. Hogan, Jr. ’33 is one of Boston College’s oldest living alumni. He was born on April 14, 1912 – the same week as two other notable events occurred: the opening of Boston’s famed Fenway Park and the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic. Hogan enrolled at Boston College in 1929, joining a student body made up almost entirely of commuting students, most of whom travelled to the Chestnut Hill campus by streetcar each class day. A heralded hockey player at Cambridge Latin High School, Hogan had aspirations of playing the sport on the varsity level at Boston College. But financial pressures of the Great Depression forced BC’s administrators to drop the sport the year he arrived on campus. Elected class president in the spring semester prior to his senior year, Hogan undertook the task of persuading school officials to reinstitute BC’s hockey team. He was successful in his quest, and was selected by his teammates to serve as Bill Hogan during his days as captain of BC’s revived hockey squad a BC hockey player. in 1933. Several weeks ago, over a lunch of sandERSPECTIVES wiches, onion rings and ice cream served at his residence in Lexington — his 1933 BC degree hangs on the wall above his home computer — Hogan shared his memories of those long-ago undergraduate days at Boston College with Chronicle correspondent Reid Oslin. What made you decide to attend Boston College? I went to Cambridge Latin School, where they had a lot of college preparatory courses. Some of my teachers were BC graduates and I also had some friends and neighbors who were just ahead of me in school who went off to BC. One of those neighbors was [John A.] “Snooks” Kelley [BC Class of 1928], who was the manager of the BC hockey team when he was there, so we were all fans of BC hockey. The BC team used to practice at the old Boston Arena, where the Boston Bruins played their games before the Garden was even built. When BC would practice and the Bruins were playing that night, before Snooks closed up the BC locker room three or four of us would go in and stay in there until they opened the doors for the Bruins’ game. Then we would go out and see the game. Those were fun days [laughter]. BC was the only school I applied to. I just expected I was going to get in [laughter] – I don’t think they had the “back-up line” that they have today. BC’s tuition was only a couple of hundred dollars in those days. How did you get involved in Boston College hockey? I went to BC expecting to play hockey. Of course, there were no athletic scholarships in those days. To my recollection, BC and Harvard were about the only local colleges that had hockey teams at that time, and they both had an arrangement to play at the Boston Arena. There was no indoor ice except for the Arena. I was elected class president at the end of my junior year. There were quite a few hockey fans and former high school players at BC, so as president of the class, I went to see [Athletics Director] John Curley and asked what he might be able to do. He told me “We can’t do anything about ice, we don’t have any money, but why don’t you see what you can do at the Arena?” I went to see Walter Brown, who owned and operated the Arena. He gave us some practice ice, but he had to be there at half past seven in the morning. When I told Mr. Curley that we had gotten some ice, he came up with some old uniforms – jerseys and hockey pants – but we had to get our own skates. It turned out that the jerseys he gave us were the football team’s old ones, but we didn’t care. They were uniforms. I got ahold of Snooks and told him how far we had gone. I asked him, “How would you like to coach us?” I told him that if this thing developed, he just might have himself a job. He used to pick me up in Cambridge on his way to practice. That’s how I got to the Arena. Well, Snooks became the coach and stayed there until the 1970s. The night we were playing our first game, I got elected captain right in the locker room. A defenseman, Owen Mullaney, popped up all of a sudden and said, “We ought to have a captain. Bill put this whole thing together, so he should be our captain.” We had some fun and it went on from there.
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“I didn’t want to give her the water,” he said. “It was going to add more misery. We have no running water. We collect water in pond-like wells that are shared with animals. Our water has to be boiled before you can drink it and even then you cannot be sure you have cleared the bacteria. So, the people get sick from the water.” Other threats come from the disease-carrying mosquitoes found near the water sources. An added difficulty in Mubende is that Schoolchildren in Mubende are benefiting from a lunch program estabthe water wells are a 10-mile walk lished through the efforts of 2006 BC alumnus Fr. Emmanuel Mwerekande. from the villages. When there is a the purchase of books and school manuel’s agenda is the building of drought, the children who fetch the supplies and the establishment of a a new church and rectory to replace water must walk farther and then lunch program for schoolchildren the parish’s 87-year-old central do not have time to go to school. ages five to 15. Funds also were church and rectory that have been “I became a priest because I provided to purchase 200-liter rain devastated by termites and recently wanted to help people. I grew up barrels for the elderly and families condemned. Another long-term goal of Fr. in a poor village and saw how so they can collect rainwater from Emmanuel is the development of the priests and missionaries were their roofs. helping people. I The advances a sustainable agriculture program. felt it was my call have “brought a He believes there may be opporto help people,” “I do what I can and great change in the tunities to tap into a local spring said Fr. Emmanuel, lives of the school- for water. The community would the rest, God does.” who was ordained children and the benefit from the food grown, but it in 1990 and earned — Fr. Emmanuel Mwerekande community at large,” is not his first priority. “The people a master of arts said Fr. Emmanuel. have been asking me about irrigadegree in pastoral “The students were tion, but it’s impossible to think ministry from Boston College in so excited to have books. We are about feeding a plant when a child 2006. experiencing a big food shortage is dying without water. “My dream is a water collection, Help for Mubende came from that has led to high food prices that BC via the establishment of the are too much for some families to purification and distribution sysIrish Famine Memorial (IFM) bear. Students and parents were so tem,” said Fr. Emmanuel, noting that the nearby hospital does not Fund, endowed through a gener- excited about the lunch program. ous gift from the family of former “I’m glad that my dream of have clean, running water. “Water University Trustee Thomas Flatley, helping people is coming true be- is life. “I do what I can and the rest, who died in 2008. Fr. Emmanuel cause of Boston College and the was awarded an IFM grant to in- Irish Famine Fund. I’m able to help God does.” stall 10,000-liter water tanks as well people with water and education,” Contact Kathleen Sullivan at as latrines at some of the schools in he added. kathleen.sullivan @bc.edu the parish. The grant also enabled The next project on Fr. Em-
C21 Center Programs Focus Is ‘Handing on the Faith’ This month marks the beginning of a “Year of Faith” as declared by Pope Benedict XVI and, in support, the Church in the 21st Century Center has organized public events for this fall that will focus on the theme of “Handing on the Faith.” “Handing on the faith is a critical issue for a Church envisioning its future in a world challenged by distraction and cynicism,” said C21 Center Director Erik Goldschmidt. “Despite these challenges, people in the 21st century continue to search for a deeper connection with God and a meaningful experience of community.” On Sept. 25, Catholic TV President Fr. Robert Reed will interview School of Theology and Ministry Professor Thomas Groome, an international authority on religious education and author of Will There Be Faith?, a guide for parents and educators on teaching Christian beliefs and values. Groome also served as guest editor of the fall 2012 issue of C21 Resources, which has a collection of essays on the many ways — from family traditions to Catholic education — that the Church
passes on the faith. The interview will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Gasson 100 and will air at a later date on Catholic TV. On Oct. 1, St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop Emeritus Harry J. Flynn will present “An Archbishop’s Perspective on Handing on the Faith,” at 4 p.m. in Gasson 100. Known for his deep devotion to the spiritual formation of clergy, religious and lay people, the archbishop is the namesake for an institute that serves as a formation resource for Catholic adults of the St. Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese wishing to deepen their knowledge of the Catholic faith and further their spiritual formation. He is credited with increasing seminary enrollment in his archdiocese, which resulted in a rise in ordinations to the priesthood during his tenure. On Oct. 4, C21 will present “Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America,” a documentary narrated by journalist Cokie Roberts that shows how sisters played a vital role in shaping American life and exercised courage during many dramatic moments in US history. The screening will take place at
5:30 p.m. in the Yawkey Center. A panel discussion, featuring women religious and moderated by Lynch School of Education Kearns Professor Mary Walsh, will follow. Other events this semester include: an Oct. 12 workshop on “Tools of the Time: Tech-Savvy Teaching and Pastoral Ministry”; a Nov. 2 workshop on the “New Evangelization for Today’s Parish” co-presented by STM Associate Professor and Director of Continuing Education Jane Regan; a Nov. 6 panel discussion on “Encountering Christ Through Service” moderated by Volunteer and Service Learning Center Director Dan Ponsetto; and a Nov. 13 workshop on “Effective Retreats: Getting the Most out of a Transformative Experience” with Intersections Director Burt Howell and a panel of Catholic high school, university and parish retreat program leaders. Co-sponsors of these events are STM, Roche Center for Catholic Education, C21 Online, Campus Ministry and the Volunteer and Service Learning Center. For details, see www.bc.edu/church21. —Kathleen Sullivan
Gozik Settling Into Job of Directing Intl. Programs By Sean Smith Chronicle Editor
With a solid background in both the administrative and academic aspects of international education, Nick Gozik is pleased to be in his first academic year as director of Office of International Programs and the McGillycuddy-Logue Center for Undergraduate Global Studies. Gozik formally began his duties in July, after having served as assistant director of the Global Education Office for Undergraduates at Duke University for almost four years. He succeeded Bernd Widdig, who had directed the office since 2007. “I am very happy to be at Boston College, and in the Office of International Programs,” said
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at the University of Richmond, and as a consultant for the Social Science Research Council. He also has served as a research assistant and later visiting professor at New York University, where he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees. He has spent time in some 30 countries, and his experiences include teaching in Korea, studying in Brazil and conducting research in the French Caribbean. “Immersing yourself in another language, another culture, is one of the best things you can do for yourself,” he said. “Your assumptions are challenged, and you are open to so many new and different perspectives. You don’t realize how small the world really is until you start to travel.” Among his research activities,
Nick Gozik joined Boston College this summer as director of the Office of International Programs and the McGillycuddy-Logue Center. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
Gozik, who was born in Australia. “The International Programs staff is extremely professional and experienced, and is one of the best I’ve seen. Thanks to the efforts of Bernd Widdig and others, BC is at a perfect point to make the transition to a new level of international education, and I hope to do everything I can to make this possible.” With some 1,200 students going abroad each year, and approximately 150 students from other countries coming to campus, said Gozik, the University’s commitment to international education as an institutional priority — as expressed in its Strategic Plan — is clear. “Moreover, Boston College’s emphasis on reflection, in keeping with its Jesuit tradition, is very well-suited to international education. Students should not view a study-abroad experience as an end in and of itself, but as an opening to consider what direction the next phase of their lives might take.” Gozik worked as assistant director of international education
Gozik has explored the internationalization of higher education — receiving funding from the US Department of Education — and his current work explores how students make decisions on studying abroad. Gozik sees several areas of focus for international education at BC: increasing opportunities in “less traditional locations,” such as China, India and Brazil; working with the Jesuit community to take advantage of its global network of contacts; fostering more experiential learning and internships abroad; and engaging those groups, such as AHANA students or undergraduates studying math and science, who “tend to be under-represented in international education.” Overall, Gozik said, the office and the McGillycuddy-Logue Center will continue efforts to increase their visibility in the University community. “We want to reach out to others on and off campus, so that faculty and students have voices in what we do.” Contact Sean Smith at sean.smith@bc.edu
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Law Student Speaks at DNC Organizers of “HEALTHY YOU,” Boston College’s employee health and wellness initiative, are preparing for another academic year of events and activities, fortified by a solid two-year track record of success. Launched in the fall of 2010, HEALTHY YOU emphasizes individual choice and responsibility through a voluntary program that focuses on wellness. It includes a range of resources to help faculty and staff avoid the risks that lead to an illness or ongoing health issue, and to improve management of a chronic illness. Organizers say they are impressed by the University community’s response to HEALTHY YOU, and the outcome of its participation in the initiative: Many BC employees and their spouses have taken part in HEALTHY YOU programs, and are having positive experiences. “As we begin our third year of the HEALTHY YOU initiative we are very pleased with the feedback we have received,” said Associate Vice President for Human Resources Robert Lewis. “A number of employees have told us that this program has made a difference for them and they are feeling healthier as a result. Most of the difference is just from employees taking small steps, but these small steps add up.” One of the most popular HEALTHY YOU programs is the “Know Your Numbers” campaign that encourages employees and their spouses to find out or update important health indicators such as height, weight, blood pressure, overall and HDL cholesterol and blood glucose levels. HEALTHY YOU also sponsors biometric screenings on campus during the year that provide opportunities to obtain these numbers and fill out a confidential health questionnaire (HQ). With information from the HQ as a guide, employees and spouses can arrange to make a health and fitness plan with a Harvard Pilgrim health coach. Although there was a slight drop-off in employees and spouses filling out HQs from 2011 to 2012 — 2,028 to 1,759 — organizers say they are nonetheless pleased by the overall level of participation. They note, for example, that almost 65 percent of participants took the HQ both years. Organizers also are encouraged by the number of employees and spouses, 684, who made a plan with a health coach between January and July this year. “The emphasis this past year was to make employees and spouses aware of Harvard Pilgrim’s health care coaching recourses and the feedback we received from those making a plan with a health care coach has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Lewis. “Health care coaching continues to be a resource available to BC’s Harvard Pilgrim members free of charge.” Another cause for optimism, organizers say, is the University’s average “wellness score,” 88.1, an indicator for a given population’s state of health derived from mortality risks based on age and gender, modifiable health risks (such as smoking, physical activity and weight) and preventive service compliance. BC’s score is above the national average wellness scores as compiled by Harvard Pilgrim (87.4) and the University of Michigan (85.3), and is close to the ideal figure of 90. This semester’s full slate of HEALTHY YOU events, activities and programs will be announced shortly, but Lewis says there is already an indication of the BC community’s zeal for health and fitness. BC’s Recreational Complex has teamed up with HEALTHY YOU to enhance the annual “Walk Across Campus” challenge, a two-month long event which encourages employees to make a point of being physically active in their daily lives. “So far approximately 50 teams with some 800 participants have signed up for the ‘Walk.’ The response has been fantastic and ‘Walk’ has already achieved its maximum participation for the semester.” See the HEALTHY YOU website at www.bc.edu/healthy-you for more information. —Office of News & Public Affairs
Hispanic Heritage Month at BC The annual Boston College Hispanic Heritage Month, which began this week, will offer a range of educational, cultural and social events to celebrate Hispanic life and history. Upcoming events include “Bienvenidos!” (Sept. 26), an open reception hosted by The Latinos/as at Boston College in Gasson 100 at 4:30 p.m., and a Sept. 27 panel discussion with BC students who have studied or performed service in
Spanish-speaking or Latin American countries. Hispanic Heritage Month will conclude on Oct. 12 with a fiesta at 6:30 p.m. in Gasson 100. For information on events, e-mail mirandjo@ bc.edu or lopezak@bc.edu, or see the University Calendar [www.bc.edu/ events] or the calendar of events at the Office of Institutional Diversity website [www.bc.edu/diversity]. —Office of News & Public Affairs
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Just hours before President Barack Obama officially accepted his party’s nomination and spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, earlier this month, first-year Law School student Alejandra Salinas appeared on that same stage before the largest gathering of Democrats in the country. “Some people say young people aren’t excited about this election,” Salinas told the audience. “That it isn’t about us. But the decisions made over the next four years will affect us more than anyone.” Salinas was there in her role as national president of the College Democrats of America (CDA), a position she was unanimously elected to in 2010. She is the first Latina to hold that office. The convention was a whirlwind of activity for Salinas, who also addressed the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus and Women’s Caucus. She did media interviews with outlets such as USA Today, PBS, CNN, MTV, Politico, Huffington Post, Telemundo, Univision and the Los Angeles Times, among many others. Her convention speech was the “obvious” highlight of her
Alejandra Salinas, national president of the College Democrats of America, during her address to the Democratic National Convention.
week, recalled Salinas. “Walking out onto that stage and feeling the energy, sharing the excitement, and getting a positive reception, was incredible,” she said. Salinas, a native of Laredo, Tex., said her interest in politics was sparked during her sophomore year of high school when debate about immigration reform took center stage in the US. Raised in a Republican household that was not politically active, she nonetheless organized with her classmates a school-wide walkout to protest the proposed legislation. “I realized that even at age 15, you can have an impact. And today, I feel it is so important for my generation to be engaged.” A 2012 graduate of the University of Texas-Austin, Salinas has served the CDA at the chapter, state and national levels. Politics Daily has named her one of “Five Rising Stars Age 25 and Under.”
Through the CDA, Salinas has had the opportunity to meet President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, as well as Vice President Joe Biden. According to Salinas, her most special encounter with a DC public figure was when she met Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor while attending a White House Christmas party. “She is a role model for all Latinas,” said Salinas. While Salinas said she has not ruled out political office in the future, she is interested in being a prosecutor. “I worked in a district attorney’s office this summer and I could see doing that work for the rest of my life.” As for now, Salinas said, “I’m excited to be a regular law student.” Listen to Salinas’ Democratic National Convention address: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/ clip/3873615
Pops On the Heights Celebrating 20 Years The Pops on the Heights Scholarship Gala marks its 20th anniversary milestone on Sept. 28 and once again brings “America’s orchestra,” the famous Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, led by conductor Keith Lockhart, to Conte Forum. Though plans were unconfirmed at press time, organizers anticipate that a special guest artist also will take the stage during the concert, considered the unofficial kickoff to Parents’ Weekend. Proceeds from the Pops concert benefit the Pops Scholars, a longstanding student-aid initiative that has raised more than $19 million in financial aid assistance for deserving BC students since its start in 1993. Organizers look forward to a record-breaking anniversary year gala, which will include a special dedication to its founder, long-time University Trustee James F. Cleary ’50, Hon. ’93, who died last February. Doors open at Conte Forum at 6 p.m., with pre-concert festivities including performances by such student musical groups as the Acoustics, the Bostonians, the Dynamics, the Heightsmen and the Sharps, as well as the BC Marching
Keith Lockhart will conduct the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra at next Friday’s Pops on the Heights concert.
Band, which will play outside the venue. The University Chorale will perform with the Pops during the concert, which begins at 8 p.m. At press time, tickets were still available, though organizers once again expect a sold-out event. See www.bc.edu/pops for details or call 1-800-767-5591. Some 1,600 families are expected to take part in Parents’ Weekend, a range of events and activities organized to give parents a deeper sense of their children’s BC experiences. Activities include a welcome by University President William P. Leahy, SJ, who will share his reflec-
tions on the University’s mission and plans for BC’s Sesquicentennial Celebration; open houses with the deans of each school, as well as open houses hosted in offices across campus; perspectives by faculty and administrators on student life inside and outside the classroom; class attendance with students; a tailgate barbecue before the Eagles kick off against Clemson University, and a family liturgy in Conte Forum. For more details, see the Parents’ Weekend website at http://www.bc.edu/ alumni/invest/parents/parentsweekend.html —Rosanne Pellegrini
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Irish Historian Ruth-Ann Harris Ruth-Ann Harris, a faculty member in the Irish Studies Program for nearly two decades whose research was the basis for the nation’s first online database for tracking “lost” Irish immigrants, died on Sept. 5. A resident of Jamaica Plain, Mass., she was 76. Dr. Harris served as researcher and editor for an eight-volume set of books, The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in The Boston Pilot, a compilation of advertisements from 1831-1921 in The Boston Pilot “Missing Friends” column placed by Irish seeking others who were “lost” following emigration. In 2005, Boston College launched “Information Wanted: A Database of Advertisements for Irish Immigrants Published in The Boston Pilot,” a website that drew on Dr. Harris’ work. More than 41,000 records are now available as a searchable online database via the site [http:// infowanted.bc.edu]. “These ‘Missing Friends’ advertisements provide a window on Irish immigration and the difficulties that surrounded it,” said Dr. Harris in an interview at the time of the website’s launch. “Ties of community and family could be broken, but the searches represent the tremendous effort that family and friends made to
reconstitute in America what they had lost in leaving Ireland. The column was critically important in this process of rebuilding lost ties.” Dr. Harris had a personal, as well as an academic, interest when it came to the subject of leaving family and home. Born in Liberia of English parents, she was sent to London as a small child at the outbreak of World War II, only to be caught up in the Nazis’ bombing campaign of Great Britain. Barely schoolaged, she was then relocated to Canada, where she stayed for five years until she was reunited with her parents. Dr. Harris is survived by her husband, John, her children, Catherine, Dorothy and Rees, and eight grandchildren. A celebration of Dr. Harris’ life is planned for a later date at Boston College. —Sean Smith
Anne Dhu McLucas, First Music Chair Anne Dhu McLucas (formerly Shapiro), the inaugural chairperson of Boston College’s Music Department, was a victim in a double homicide that occurred Sept. 7 near Eugene, Ore., where she had been living for the past five years. She was 71. An ethnomusicologist as well as a pianist and harpsichordist, Dr. McLucas joined the Boston College faculty in 1987 as an adjunct associate professor and acting director of the music program (she had taught as an instructor from 1969-72). She became associate professor and chair when the program was elevated to full departmental status prior to the 1988-89 academic year; music became a formal major in 1989. During her tenure, the department built its curriculum, inaugurated its “Music at Mid-day” concert series, and held a special week of concerts and lectures commemorating the birth of Mozart. Under Dr. McLucas, the department also sponsored with the Irish Studies Program an annual Irish music festival that was the precursor to the University’s pop-
ular Gaelic Roots Music, Song and Dance Summer School, now a concert, workshop and lecture series. “It has been quite a time,” said Dr. McLucas, in an interview with Boston College Biweekly at the end of her final semester at BC, in 1992, before she left for the University of Oregon. “Clearly, there were many people at BC who were ready to experience music on a wide range. I think we have fashioned a unique department, one that respects all kinds of music and reaches out to all kinds of musicians.” Following her 10-year stint as dean at the University of Oregon School of Music — one of her achievements, according to colleagues, was helping secure state funding for a $19.2 million building renovation — Dr. McLucas served as a professor of music and from 2004-08 as chair of the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Department. She is survived by her sister, Caye Dhu Geer, her son, Jacob Shapiro, and three grandchildren. —Sean Smith
Newsmakers As a national leader on health care reform, Massachusetts has made admirable headway on issues of access and cost, wrote part-time faculty member Marylou Sudders (GSSW) in the WBUR.com blog “CommonHealth,” but needs to focus on parity in mental and physical health and caring for the whole child and adult. Developing new and more open ways of thinking about aging can alter not only how older people view themselves, but how younger people view their elders, said Sloan Center on Aging and Work Director Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes in an interview with US News & World Report, and both perspectives can help change traditional views of what it means to be old. Prof. Ray Madoff (Law) was interviewed on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” about whether people should be able to control the commercial use of their identities after death. Assoc. Prof. Seth Jacobs (History) discussed “Teaching 9/11” in a live interview on New England Cable News.
Since 1996, the United States has developed a huge, costly, harsh and often arbitrary system of expulsion, and this vast experiment in deportation has neither deterred undocumented immigration nor substantially reduced serious crime rates, according to an opinion piece in the New York Times by Prof. Daniel Kanstroom (Law), whose new book, Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora, was launched on campus Sept. 12. Asst. Prof. Peter Krause (Political Science) discussed with New England Cable News the controversy over the best-selling book No Easy Day, an account by a former Navy SEAL on the covert operation that took down Osama bin Laden. With the NHL facing yet another potential labor stoppage,
BC BRIEFING many casual fans are wondering what makes the business of hockey so unique? The answer to that question is complex, steeped in history, and unfortunately for the players, explains why there is a high probability that a lockout will occur, as Carroll School
NOTA BENE Two Boston College sociologists were honored by professional organizations for their noteworthy careers of scholarship and outstanding contributions to the field. Professor David Karp received the George Herbert Mead Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, an international professional organization of scholars interested in the study of a wide range of social issues with an emphasis on identity, everyday practice and language. The American Sociological Association presented Professor Emeritus William Gamson with the 2012 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, which honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline. —Kathleen Sullivan Louise and Jim Vanderslice and Family Professor of Chemistry Lawrence T. Scott has been selected as a member of the 2012 class of fellows of the American Chemical Society, the largest single-science professional organization in the world. Scott was nominated by colleagues and chosen for his “extraordinary achievements in and contributions to the sciences” as well as his public service work. He and other members of the 2012 class of ACS fellows were honored on Aug. 20 during the society’s National Meeting in Philadelphia. A faculty member since 1993, Scott currently serves as chair-elect for the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and sits on the editorial advisory board for The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Since 2006, he has served also as associate chair of the BC chemistry department. —Ed Hayward
of Management Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs Warren Zola explained in the Huffington Post. National Catholic Reporter ran a story on a theological conference in Nairobi — the first to bring together a wide range of lay and religious Africans from 15 countries — hosted by the global network of scholars Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, which is chaired by Founders Professor of Theology James Keenan, SJ. Publications Asst. Prof. Seung-A Annie Jin (Communication) published the following journal articles: “Toward integrative models of flow’: Effects of performance, skill, challenge, playfulness, and presence on flow in video games,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; “The moderating role of sensation seeking tendency in robotic haptic interfaces,” Behaviour & Information Technology; “The virtual malleable self and the virtual identity discrepancy model: Investigative frameworks for virtual possible selves and others in avatar-based identity construction and social interaction,” Computers in Human Behavior; and “The potential of social media for luxury brand management: A structural equation modeling approach,” Marketing Intelligence & Planning.
Honors/Appointments Center for Work and Family Assistant Director Jennifer Sabatini Fraone was named PartTime Professional of the Year, a national award given by the Talented Alliance of Part-time Professionals.
JOBS The following are among the most recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources. For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/offices/hr/: Marketing Database Analyst, Center for Corporate Citizenship Reference and Instruction Librarian, O’Neill Library Nursing Clinical Placement Specialist, Connell School Of Nursing Web & Social Media Manager, Center for Corporate Citizenship Program/Communication Specialist, STM Continuing Education
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Humanities Series Set to Begin 55th Year on Oct. 3 eral years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker and was a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She will read from her upcoming, stilluntitled novel.
By Rosanne Pellegrini Staff Writer
Stars of the literary world will once again appear at Boston College during the academic year, brought to campus by the University’s Lowell Humanities Series. Under the leadership of Professor of English and American Studies Program Director Carlo Rotella, the acclaimed series begins its 55th year with another stellar line-up of guest speakers. A look at the fall schedule: Oct. 3: Katherine Boo, a journalist for more than 25 years, is known as a fearless, honest writer dedicated to telling the stories of the poor and disadvantaged in such publications as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the Washington City Paper and The Washington Monthly. Boo has profiled marginalized populations in the US and abroad, and continues her quest to give voice to those without one in her New York Times bestselling book Behind the Beautiful Forevers (which is the topic of her address). This landmark work of narrative nonfiction tells the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Mumbai, India. The event is presented in collaboration with the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics. Oct. 17: The New Yorker Poetry Editor Paul Muldoon, whose poetry has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, is presented by Poetry Days. His
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books of poetry include New Weather, Mules, Why Brownlee Left, Quoof, Meeting The British, Madoc: A Mystery, The Annals of Chile, Hay, Poems 1968-1998, Moy Sand and Gravel, Horse Latitudes, and Maggot. A Northern Ireland native, Muldoon worked in Belfast as a BBC radio and television producer, and later was a poetry professor at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. He is now the Princeton University Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor and chair of its Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. Oct. 30: Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction; her second, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. She co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, and her nonfiction has appeared in numerous prominent publications and in anthologies. She worked for sev-
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Nov. 15: The pursuits of Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, include the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from Antiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Among his books are two wide-ranging collections of essays, Defenders of the Text and Bring Out Your Dead. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Balzan Prize for History of Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award.
Nov. 28: Jane Mayer has been a writer for The New Yorker since 1995. Based in Washington, DC, she writes about politics and has distinguished herself with her coverage of the war on terror. Mayer is the author of the best-selling book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, chosen by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of the year, and by the Economist, Salon, Slate, and Bloomberg as one of the best books of the year. Currently she is writing about elections and campaign reform. Dec. 5: Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, is the author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (which is the topic of his address); Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France; and Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. He is now working on a history of the banjo. Born in Belgium and raised in Maryland, he has taught at Harvard and Michigan State universities. Events are open to the public, free of charge. Complete series details — including event times and locations, and spring semester speakers — can be found at www.bc.edu/lowellhs. The series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, BC’s Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Office of the Provost.
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A Cappella Groups to Perform Benefit Boston College’s nine student a cappella groups will perform Saturday in Robsham Theater as part of a special concert to support a non-profit school for children with cancer. All proceeds from “Acappellafest 2012: A Benefit for The Morgan Center” will go to The Morgan Center, a Long Island-based organization that provides pre-school educational programs and opportunities for socializing in an environment designed to be safe for children whose cancer treatments have suppressed their immune systems. Performing at the concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will be Shaan, The Acoustics, Against the Current, BEATS, BC Sharps, The Bostonians, The Dynamics, BC Madrigals, and The Heightsmen. The center’s namesake, Morgan Zuch — who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia as a two-year-old but is now a high school student — is expected to attend along with her parents, Nancy and Rod, who founded the center, and present a speech during the evening. Matt Johnson ’12, president of the Acoustics, said the idea for the benefit arose from the group’s visit to the center this past spring. “Acappellafest is always our favorite show of the year because it showcases the variety of a cappella music in the BC community,” said Johnson. “This year, it will become a more meaningful, intentional event as we honor and support those who care for the lives of others on a daily basis. We can’t wait to see the BC community turn out for the show.” Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the Robsham Box Office or online at www.bc.edu/ tickets. A Facebook event page has been created at www.facebook.com/ events/468496383172760. —Sean Smith
Boston College parents Ralph and Shelly Stayer and members of their family were on hand Sept. 7 for the dedication of the residence hall at 110 St. Thomas More Road as Stayer Hall. University President William P. Leahy, SJ, Trustees Chair Kathleen McGillycuddy NC’71 and Senior Vice President for University Advancement James Husson spoke at the event, as did Ralph and Shelly. A reception was held outside the St. Ignatius Church following the ceremony. (In photo below, Ralph and Shelly Stayer with family members)