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B u s i n e ss
5 Want a Degree Fast? Get on the Fast Track
8 Latino Leadership: Students Have Much to Say About Harvard’s Latino Leaders Program
Feature
12 We Spoke to
Beverly Tatum – the Author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Can We Talk About Race?, and President of Spelman College – about Race and Education
L i f e st y l e
18 Bourdeaux Challenge: Wine Consumers are Changing, Will Bordeaux Makers too?
20 Review: China meets India at Mumbai Chopstix
22 Review: Weleda Beauty Products are “Just Right”
B e nc h m a r k s
6 Boston Opportunity Agenda is Bringing Philanthropy to Public Schools
16 Los Lobos: The
10 The Anime Redub:
Pack Catches Up With Their Roots
Finding the Meaning in Translation
E n t e rta i n m e n t
23 Comic: The Painted Man in Muscle Park
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Welcome
From the EDI T OR
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In a city rich in shades here is a color that includes all…
I remember overhearing my mother espouse some Mark Twain-attributed
wisdom: “Don’t let your schooling interfere with your education.” I immediately thought, “I am so not going to school anymore.” Despite my best rhetoric, I still had to get on the school bus the next day. But having to go to school the next day, the idea of compulsory education, is one of the best things we have going. Education may be the single most important issue in our society. Its effects are overarching: income, crime, poverty, tolerance, sustainability, global competitiveness, etc. In the words of Horace Mann, “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social machinery.” That’s why I love the idea behind the Boston Oppurtunity Agenda (p. 6) — Boston’s biggest philanthropists and charities are teaming up to improve the city’s underachieving public schools. A variety of organizations, each with different missions, are tackling a core problem, because they realize it is essential to each of their individual goals. If education really is to be the great equalizer, we need to have more programs like the BOA and more people like Dr. Beverly Tatum (p. 12), too ensure everyone has access to a high-quality education. The closer we get to achieving this, the better our society will be, for this generation and those to come. Michael
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Aaron A. Arzu is a Le Cordon Bleutrained culinarian. A recovering lawyer, Aaron now spends his time arguing over the perfect spice blends instead of legal briefs.
Anna Giraldo-Kerr founded Shades of Success, a career coaching firm, to help professionals of color proactively manage their careers. In 2006, Anna’s editorial commentary on immigration and education was awarded national recognition at the First National Ethnic Media Awards.
Trond Arne Undheim is an entrepreneur, speaker and author. He lives between Boston and London, speaks six languages and has a Ph.D. in sociology. He writes frequently on wine and society.
Desmond Williams is a freelance writer and JUNO magazine columnist. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, is half of a mixed-race couple and father to a rambunctious, comedic and inquisitive kindergartner. Desmond is currently working on a graphic novel, The Painted Man.
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Accelerated MBA programs appealed to professionals who wanted to Did you start an associate’s or a bachelor’s degree but save time and money, and also wanted to see a return on their investhave not completed it? Would earning a graduate degree ment. The median pre-MBA salary that survey respondents reported was $55,000. The median post-MBA salary was $90,000 and 78 percent of like an MBA advance your career? the respondents reported receiving a promotion post-MBA. Many accelerated courses have small cohorts of students and are geared toward supporting a working adult. Carole Beauchemin, Assistant Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs at Northeastern University’s ColAn accelerated or fast-track degree, may be the right choice. Fast-track de- lege of Professional Studies describes the unique “concierge” service the gree courses and programs are designed so students can earn an undergradu- university provides to their Fast-Track degree students: “We select their ate or graduate degree in a shorter period of time. Typically an accelerated courses each term, we order books and meals for on-ground classes. For all degree program has fewer weekly sessions and offers flexible and convenient programs, we register students for their classes as well, as these courses do options for students who are balancing education with work and family. The not show up on the public course schedule during the registration period. options usually include a blend of face-to-face (on ground or on-campus) Within the program management of these programs, the students are not courses and on-line courses (distance education). assigned to regular advisors through our Academic and Student services unit. This accelerated format is intense because the required coursework A program manager on our team serves as the advisor role, overseeing the assignments must be completed in shorter sessions. Students that choose program progression for each student, and assisting students and faculty with this fast-track option must commit to the amount of work and be focused, any academic issues while enrolled in the program.” motivated and organized. Schools know that students are busy and have designed learning experiThe benefits to a fast-track degree vary by program. Some fast-track degree ences to attain degrees as soon as possible. Some universities may consider programs may have lower costs, discussed in a September 16, 2009 article and determine that students’ prior college credit or work and life experience the Wall Street Journal reporting on the growing popularity of accelerated can count toward the accelerated degree program. Although accelerated MBA programs. The Journal partnered with a research firm and surveyed degree programs have intense coursework, they are an attractive alternative 1,361 recent graduates and 735 alumni from 48 accelerated MBA programs. to traditional degree programs for the working professional. www.colormagazineusa.com AUGUST 2010
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Boston schoolchildren perform at the BOA Launch (Richard Howard)
An Agenda for All The BOA is a Bold, Concerted Venture to Make Boston the Leading City for Upward Mobility By Jack Curtis
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he civic leaders who developed Boston Opportunity Agenda (BOA),
a unique, long-term commitment to improve educational and economic prospects for everyone in Boston, are quick to say it is not “another initiative.” They are even quicker to call it “a historic partnership.” For the first time in Boston history, the City of Boston and Boston Public Schools (BPS) have teamed with Greater Boston’s leading public charities and major philanthropic foundations around a common goal: to support, through significant investment, an education pipeline that encompasses the full range of services from early childhood care and education to high school success and post-secondary achievement.
Carol Johnson, Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, speaks at the BOA Launch (Richard Howard)
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Robert Beal, president of The Beal Companies, and philanthropist Myra Kraft first proposed this broad, unprecedented collaboration based on their deep involvement with Boston’s large public charities. With urgency and an awareness that no one sector can accelerate citywide student achievement, the partners are combining their resources, expertise and influence to generate transformative progress on a large scale. The venture was announced on June 22, 2010 and includes the Boston Foundation, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, the Barr Foundation, The Beal Companies, Eos Foundation, the Myra & Robert Kraft Family Foundation, the Nellie Mae Educational Foundation and New Profit Inc. “If we want to take responsibility for assuring opportunity throughout the city, see real progress, and assure our region’s competitive edge, we need all hands on deck.” said Mary Jo Meisner, vice president of communications at the Boston Foundation, who organized the launch of BOA to the media and general public. “In this simple and elegant partnership, which is unique in the United States, we’re putting all the pieces together and aligning them to achieve profound change.” BOA builds on a strong foundation of innovative programs currently underway in the city’s public schools. BOA’s goals, which it feels are ambitious but achievable, align with the BPS’s Acceleration Agenda, a roadmap, endorsed by the Boston School Committee this past June, that sets high academic goals for students to attain by 2014. “With so many projects in our community to improve education, we saw an opportunity for the key entities to come together and tackle a largesized problem. Strategically investing our collective resources in established, well-researched initiatives will enable us to accomplish more than any of us can alone,” said Michael Durkin, president of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. “As funders, we will be looking for ways to bring improvements into the system,” said Barry Shrage, president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, “and extend proven strategies widely, by influencing public policy as well as the private funding community.” Goals And Benchmarks A Solid Education Foundation sets forth that
by 2014, 75 percent of Boston children will enter Boston Public Schools with age-appropriate literacy skills (vs. 54 percent in 2009). In addition, by 2014, 85 percent will achieve proficiency on the English Language Assessment MCAS test for third graders (vs. 31 percent in 2009). l To achieve this goal, BOA is supporting Thrive in 5, a citywide partnership, launched by the
United Way and the City of Boston in 2008, that supports children’s healthy development, early learning and school readiness. On Track for High School Education
anticipates that by 2014, 80 percent of BPS students will earn at least a B in Algebra or Math 8 and at least 40 percent enrollment of non-exam school students in Algebra 1. Currently, BPS shows 10 percent of Algebra 1 students achieving a B or above. Only 4 percent of non-exam students took Algebra 1 in the 2009-2010 school year. l For this goal, BPS has partnered with Boston After School and Beyond, a public-private partnership, and other nonprofit organizations to reduce summer learning loss, promote student achievement and model enhanced year-round learning. High School Completion expects that by 2014, 80 percent of BPS high school students will have a four-year graduation rate (vs. the current 61 percent) and the annual dropout rate will be reduced to 3 percent or lower (vs. the current 6.4 percent). l The priority initiative for this goal is Success Boston, a partnership of BPS, the Boston Foundation, the Boston Private Industry Council, local colleges and universities, and other community-based organizations to help students get ready for college, get into college and complete college. Post-Secondary Attainment aims to have
70 percent of BPS graduates obtain an associate’s degree or higher. Only 35.5 percent of the BPS class of 2000 completed two- or four-year post-secondary degrees – at a time when 40 percent of jobs require more than a high school degree. l To meet this goal, a BOA-initiated network of state-funded adult basic education programs will provide additional training and support to move adult learners into post-secondary education. Accountability is a pillar of BOA. The Boston Indicators Project, a joint program of the Boston Foundation, the City of Boston, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, will track BOA’s progress and release a scorecard annually to the community. “What an exciting time to be an educator in Boston,” said Cheryl Watson Harris, principal of the Tobin School in Roxbury since 2003. “We’re breaking down walls. It’s a call out to the whole village. We can support our most vulnerable students because we believe they can be successful.”
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The Latino Leadership Initiative Four UMass Seniors Reflect on Pioneering Leadership Program B y A n n a G i r a l d o - K e r r
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emember the names: Marlena César-Méndez, María Dixon, Diego Gómez-Aristazábal and Audy Ramírez. Expect great things from these young adults. The group – three are recent graduates from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and one is a semester short – was part of a cohort of 28 Latino college students who were carefully selected to participate in a pilot leadership development program created by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Other schools represented were Loyola Marymount University- Los Angeles, University of California-Merced, Texas A&M International-Laredo, and the University of Houston.¶ The weeklong program included classes on public speaking, negotiations, teamwork and several other activities aimed at self discovery and reflection. Sessions were led by Harvard faculty that included Marshall Ganz, Celia González and David Thomas. A speaker series, which included a local sports personality, a Pullitzer prize winner, business leaders and former government officials, was also part of the curriculum. The program will continue throughout the academic year, as groups from each participating university will develop and implement a community project facilitated by a mentor.¶
When learning about the UMass foursome who participated in the program, it became clear why they were selected: They have all demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to make a positive impact in their communities. For instance, Audy Ramírez, who was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to Boston in his teens, founded Club MANGU (Move Ahead Never Give Up), the first Dominican Club at UMass-Boston. María Dixon’s life experience as the mother of four provided her with opportunities to become a health care advocate. Marlena César-Méndez wants to pursue graduate studies in sociology to complement her major in Criminal Justice and minor in Latino Studies. Meanwhile, Diego GómezAristizábal’s leadership has been focused on community development and art activism.¶ Color Magazine sat down with three of the UMass participants following a graduation ceremony that included an inspiring keynote speech by the Honorable Carlos Gutiérrez, former Secretary of Commerce and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Kellogg’s Company. A fourth student participated in a phone interview at a later date. 8
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CM: What word comes to mind when describing your participation in Harvard’s Latino Leadership Initiative? Why? DGA: Revealing... because the program showed leadership potential that an individual has. It gave us a look into the internal and external aspects of leadership and also all the attributes needed to be a leader. AR: Empowerment. I believe we have been empowered. It has been a process of information for one week we were here and when you have information you are empowered to use that information for any purpose you may want. I feel myself empowered to do many things now as a result of this program. MCM: Eye-opening. [The experience] opened up my eyes to information. It revealed a lot of resources. We definitely learned a lot. It was also an eye-opening to the Harvard kind of experience. MD: Empowering and vision. The program has taught me tangible tools to make a difference in my community. Now I have the tools to help me in my goals to become an advocate for disabled children within the healthcare system. Vision is a powerful one for me. The LLI has provided me with mentors and partners that share the same vision.
Future Leaders (L to R) Diego Gómez-Aristizábal, Marlena César-Méndez, María Dixon, Audy Ramírez | Credit: Tom Fitzsimmons
CM: Which sessions or professors were the most memorable? DGA: Marshall Ganz. His approach is inclusive. His talk reconceptualized my notion of leadership. AR: I really loved Junot Diaz. As he was speaking about his experience as an immigrant coming from DR [the Dominican Republic], I was listening to my own story. That was really touching. MCM: Dr. Robert Beis. He is an inspiring person. His teaching style was very capturing. He grabbed my attention the whole time. MD: It’s very hard to choose, I would say that Professor Ganz and Professor Bies were very powerful. Professor Bies’ style of leadership is empowering. His energy and sense of caring for the most vulnerable within our communities is amazing. After his class I wanted to go and begin my project. Professor Ganz’s sessions not only addressed our weakness but our strengths as public speakers, trying to convey information in a short amount of time to an audience. I loved his class. CM: What would you recommend to those looking to apply to next year’s program? DGA: The importance of networking and taking initiative. It’s something as simple as saying, ‘Today, I am not going to watch TV and I am going to go and go to talk to someone.’ Another thing is to be willing to compromise, and by this I am referring to a lot of people who go to school and have a job and that is fine. But try to get involved while you are in school even if you have a job. Otherwise, it becomes harder once you are out. AR: I agree. I have a good example of that. When I first came to UMass, I didn’t know anyone there. As soon as I started to make friends, my life changed to the point that I started a club. MCM: It is all about what Diego said, networking. As a student, I used to go to school and that was it. Then I had a class with one kid who introduced me to Casa Latina. I didn’t need to create something new. I joined something and I took a leadership role as the secretary. MD: Never let an amazing opportunity pass you by. Take risks and do not be discouraged by negative comments. Always believe in yourself and just go for it.
Interview has been condensed and edited. Anna Giraldo-Kerr, who recently graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education, writes about leadership, diversity and entrepreneurship. She can be reached at annagkerr@gmail.com
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like they did in the past. We use the name of the original character and in the dialogue we have them use the Japanese way of referring to each other in a way that shows the relationship they have with other characters, such as adding chan at the end of the name to show it’s a good friend they are talking to. “I think people use to worry that having too many cultural references in a show or a movie would make it confusing for an American audiBy John Black ence, but we’ve learned that it not only isn’t t wasn’t that long ago when the idea of watching a dubbed series or confusing, but adds to the experience for them. movie was anathema to anime fans in America. The quality – and accuracy – of You have to trust the audience and their intelthe translations wasn’t very good, and the talent used to bring them to life for a ligence,” he said. FUNimation has a division of people dedicated non-Japanese speaking audience didn’t always take the time to make sure the lines to making sure that each project they work on is they were saying accurately reflected the images on the screen. culturally correct, from the moment the property is first licensed to the final review before it is released. Scripts are carefully gone over to make sure nothing is lost – or added – in translation, not only on dialogue but every detail of the “The attention paid to the cultural details of anime shows story, right down to the correct translation has improved tremendously in the past 10 to 15 years,” said of a sign in the background, as long as it’s Mike McFarland who works as a producer, director and voice important to the story. actor at FUNimation Entertainment, one of the world’s largest The actors play an important part in mainproducers of anime for American audiences. “For example, if taining cultural integrity when they record the we’re doing a series set in a Japanese high school, we don’t just dialogue for the show, too. “We listen very give the characters American names that people will recognize, carefully to the performances of the actors in the original shows,” McFarland said. “It’s not enough to just match the words to the mouth movements of the animated characters. We listen to the rhythm, the music of what they are saying. That’s how the characters are created in the first place, and we do what we can to to honor those performances.” The work that McFarland and his coworkers at FUNimation put into each project has not only helped old school anime fans make the leap of faith to watching dubbed movies and series, but has opened the genre up to a whole new group of fans of all ages. “At first, adults may look at anime as being for kids because they see it as a cartoon, but once they start exploring all the different styles of anime product that’s out there, they’re Eden of the East: ©EDEN going to find something they’ll enjoy,” OF THE EAST Licensed by he said. “There’s something else, too, FUNimation® Productions, in the way that the stories are being Ltd. All Rights Reserved. told. In the West, we’re used to stories Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: © Hiromu being told a certain way. Stories from Arakawa/FA Project, MBS. the East don’t follow that formula at all. Licensed by FUNimation® Productions, Ltd. All Rights The good guy doesn’t always win and Reserved. the story doesn’t always end cleanly. I Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) think Western audiences have come to Alone: © khara. Licensed by appreciate that.” FUNimation® Productions,
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Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
on Race
& Education Beverly Tatum grew up as the child of educators in the predominantly white town of Bridgewater, Mass. Throughout school she had to find her identity while avoiding the pitfalls of tokenism. Today, as president of Spelman College in Atlanta – the oldest historically black women’s college in the country – she his helping young women do the same. She is also an expert on race and education: her popular book, “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, addresses an important, if uneasy, question. Her most recent book, Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, takes the conversation a step further and challenges us to examine our society and how race defines it. www.colormagazineusa.com AUGUST 2010
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CM: As educators, did your parents teach you anything that you use today as president of Spelman College? BT: My mother taught me how to read. [Laughs.] I learned how to read before I got to school, certainly that served me very well throughout my education – the fact that I was an early and strong reader. And certainly both of them modeled the importance and possibility of balancing family and career, which is particularly important to me. My father in his career as a college professor, certainly gave me tips along the way in terms of navigating the politics of tenure and promotion. CM: You say we are in an “era of school resegregation.” Can you talk about how this is happening and why? BT: If we look at the history of school desegregation we know that it was really launched with the Brown v. Board of Education decision but took some time to really get moving. It wasn’t until the era of President Lyndon Johnson that it really took hold because his administration essentially threatened to withhold funds to those schools that did not develop desegregation plans. During the tenure of Lyndon Johnson there was rapid movement towards school desegregation and a lot of that was through bussing. When President Nixon came into office he was opposed to mandatory, or forced, busing, and he had the oppurtunity to appoint several supreme court justices during his tenure. During his tenure supreme court decisions essentially limited the scope of what you could do around school desegregation. For example, in 1974, one of the famous cases was Milliken v. Bradley, which had to do with the Detroit schools, which were highly segregated – an urban city with a large black population surrounded by a ring of white suburban communities. There was really no effective way to desegregate the urban schools without using the suburban population and bussing across district lines. In the Milliken Case, it was decided that you could not require bussing across district lines. Then there were subsequent supreme court decisions that chipped away at not being able to use busing as a strategy. Then what can you do? Assuming that the neighborhoods are still segregated, which to a large extent they still are, one strategy, that many school districts started to use, is magnet schools that you hope will attract a diverse population because of the strength of the program. School magnet programs have been successful in many communities, but one of the challenges is that if you really want to have a diversity of population you have to pay attention to the mix. If you just pick kids from neighboring schools, unless those neighborhoods are diverse you’re not going to get a diverse population. Many of the magnet programs paid attention to race as a factor in who to admit to the school. There have been recent cases in which parents have sued schools, say14
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When you realize it works better to include than to exclude, it becomes reinforcing.
ing, “My child is being discriminated against. It’s my neighborhood school but because they are reserving their space for kids of color. I can’t get my kid in.” That kind of lawsuit resulted in a recent supreme court decision [Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1]. And that essentially said that you can’t use race as a factor in school assignments. That decision has, in many places, undermined what were pretty effective magnet programs. Over a period of years, that there have been a number legal decisions that have limited the options to create school desegregation. So how can you get kids from different neighborhoods in schools together? It’s very difficult. The fundamental issue is neighborhood segregation. CM: In your book you talk about the importance of inclusion and its many benefits, is there a contradiction in historically black colleges? Why are historically black colleges still relevant? BT: I think historically black colleges are still relevant in much the same way that women’s colleges are still relevant. There are populations in our society that have been historically marginalized. When you are in the period we think of as the college years – late teen early twenties and you are really developing your sense of identity, who you are what you want to be in the world – there can be a real advantage to being in an environment where you know, you are guaran-
teed by the mission of the institution, to be at the center of the educational experience. A place where are all the efforts of the faculty and staff are focused on your development and your success. That’s not to say that if you go to a coed institution or a predominantly white institution that you are not going to be encouraged or be successful, but those institutions were not created with that intention in mind. CM: In Can We Talk About Race?, you use an example of a young woman who was attending a famous, predominantly white liberal arts college. She wanted to transfer to Spelman because her needs were not being met. What were those needs? BT: One of the things that she was experiencing was the sense of being a token. She was at a school that had a very small black population in the midst of a predominantly white environment, where the student programming didn’t reflect, necessarily, her needs or interests. She felt she was always having to advocate for inclusion. And that effort distracted her from what was most important to her which was her intellectual and personal development. Coming to a place like Spelman – where she doesn’t have to be constantly advocating for the rights of the minority, so to speak, and would have plenty of role models for inspiration, where she could just be herself and not be representative of a group all the time – allowed for that. When I went to college I was coming out of Bridgewater, Massachusetts where I was one of a very small handful of black students in my high school, often the only black student in my classes. It was important to me to go to a place where there would be more students of color than I would have experienced growing up. I chose Wesleyan University, which at the time, and still is, actively recruiting students of color. I went from being the only black kid in the class to being maybe one of 50 in a class of three hundred. So I was very happy about that change. If I was going to college today, I would certainly give serious consideration to a place like Spelman College. CM: Were you distracted by the same things that she was? Did you feel like you also had to advocate for inclusion? BT: Yes I did. I did as a undergraduate. I did as a graduate student. Maybe because I had grown up in a predominantly white community my experience was different than a black student coming from largely black environment. There was some cultural shock; there were some parts of that experience that were familiar to me. So maybe it was easier for someone coming from Washington D.C. or the heart of New York City or something like that. But there were certainly times where I felt like I had to speak up. I recognized very much that people saw me not only as Beverly Daniel, my name at the time, but saw me as a young African American woman. I spent a lot of time and energy exploring what that identity meant to me.
CM: At Spelman, how do you accommodate the needs of students who have different backgrounds? BT: We are an environment that is very diverse in many ways. Ninety-nine percent of our students are women of African decent, not necessarily African American. Some of them are from the Carribean, some of them are from the continent of Africa, some of them are from Europe and those that are from the U.S. are not all from the same kinds of places. Some come from predominantly white communities, some from urban, some from rural, etc. Spelman was founded by two white women and has always been a multiracial community. Even if the students were all black, the faculty was multiracial. So students are entering a multiracial space, they are seeing people of all colors working together as equals on a daily basis, and I think that’s a powerful example. We also have a group of students who are probably best defined as black Hispanic students. These are students from Puerto Rico, Cuba maybe the Dominican. And of course there are many biracial students. If you walk around the campus it’s hard to know who is who without hearing last names or talking to students about their backgrounds. As students get to know each other they get to know what a diverse community they are a part of. One of the places where we try to do work on inclusion is around religion. Most of our students are of Christian background but not all of them are. Probably the largest minority on our campus is Muslim students. One of the things that we try and do is create an inclusive environment of people of all faiths traditions. In particular because we have a large muslim population, every year I host an Eid ul-Fitr, which is the celebration that happens at the end of Ramadan. Usually students are observing Ramadan during the school year, so you’ve got students who are fasting from sunup to sundown for a month. We have to be accommodating to them in a variety of ways – if you can’t eat until after sundown and the cafeteria closes and it’s not sundown yet, you have to figure out how you are going to make arrangements for students. That’s just a structural thing, but if you’re not thinking about that, you’ve got a population of students that is left out. In terms of the symbolic nature, the Eid ul-Fitr, and I am not muslim, but as the president I want to, in a highly symbolic way, indicate to our Muslim students that they are welcome and appreciated on our campus. CM: Some people argue that race shouldn’t be factor and we should try and be “color blind.” Why must we talk about race? BT: I think that we need to
talk about race because there are so many problems we need to solve that race has a factor in, and if we can’t talk about race then we can’t solve those problems. For example, we need to be ecologically sensitive and sustainable, and we have had a practice of dumping our stuff in communities of color. How can we talk about changing that practice without also looking at the way race has made that acceptable? Or, to use an example from Atlanta where I live, there is a hospital that, during the days of segregation, served the black population. Well that hospital still serves a needy population but it’s also the only hospital that has trauma level one, emergency services for that part of the state. So someone might say, “I don’t care about that hospital, it serves black people.” On the other hand, if you need trauma services you better hope that hospital is functional! How can we talk about the ways in which that hospital has been underfunded, without also talking about the way race has played itself out in terms of delivery of healthcare in an historically segregated environment. Or transportation, why does the subway run into some communities and not others? Race is so intertwined in the social fabric, that if you mention anything you want to change about that social fabric, it’s going to be hard to do it unless we can speak honestly about the way race has helped shape it. CM: I like your distinction between passive racism, active racism and active antiracism. Is there a feeling that simply being passive is not being racist, when in fact it might be perpetuating the status quo? BT: I think many people think of racism as operating in its active form, name calling, active discrimination, all of that. And sometimes it is really lack of information, lack of awareness that leads people to assume, “If I don’t see it, if I’m not conscious of it, it must not be happening.” Someone could live in an all-white neighborhood, and not be aware that the neighborhood is white because of social covenants. Or someone might
assume that their net worth doesn’t have anything to do with race, not recognizing that the ability to purchase property when a lot of people were buying new construction in suburban communities, was aided by G.I. benefits that were not equally distributed. There’s so much of the way racism has been institutionalized in the policies and practices of our society that people are not necessarily aware of it because they don’t know that history. As a consequence, they are thinking about racism as active and overt, not the institutionalized part of the status quo. And we cant really interrupt it unless we are actively working against it. CM: What do you say to the person who says, “It may not be fair, but I am white, I am benefitting, why should I try and change things?” BT: Well I think that it is important to understand that there is a cost for everyone. So while it’s true there is someone benefitting from the privilege, and they might say, “It’s not fair but I’ve got this privilege. Why should I give it up?” The reality is that if that privilege, which is benefitting you, is also working to the disadvantage of a lot of other people... Let’s talk about schooling. If the benefit of access to high-quality education is limited only to one group, eventually the society breaks down because you can’t have large portions of your population, growing rapidly in this case, who are uneducated or undereducated if you expect society to continue to function and thrive. We all have a vested interest in it.
CM: You argue that the advantages of being Christian, white and/or male, historically, have been self-perpetuating. But you also argue that a truly inclusive society, can become self-perpetuating. How and why can this happen? BT: When people come to understand that it is better to include than exclude, then it is a habit that can be developed. When you realize it works better to include than to exclude it becomes reinforcing. When we experience benefits of living in a diverse environment, when we see the benefit of developing the talent of all our children, we will see the benefit of an environment where people feel they are being treated fairly and are not acting out of anger and frustration. For example, we see the benefit of providing adequate healthcare when we don’t have to pay the high cost of health disparities, both the personal cost and the societal cost. As we see the benefits, it becomes reinforcing. I don’t want to say self-perpetuating, because we still have to work at it, but when people have a Dr. Tatum with Drew Carrey (third from left) and the 2006 SpelBots team at the International taste of something good, they Robocup in Germany want more of it.
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Los Lobos:
The Pack Revisits Their Roots By John Black
Working at Manny’s Estudio, located in a rundown neighborhood in East LA, gave the band the energy it was looking for, according to songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Louie Pérez. “That took us out of our comfort zone and allowed us to do what we hadn’t done in quite some time: to play together in the same room, as one,” he said. “This was not about putting your feet up; this was about working.” Bandmate David Hildago agrees. “This was a no-frills studio. We didn’t even have a couch to sit on; we had to bring one in,” he said. “What I liked about making this album, was the spirit of it: nobody said no to anything. If you had an idea, OK, try it. Just go for it and see where we end up.” The primitive conditions and the rejuvenated spirits of the 16
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band – not to mention the chemistry that comes from guys making great music together for more than 30 years – helped create Tin Can Trust, one of the bands most musical and eclectic set of songs to date. The stories told in the music range from “Twenty Seven Spanishes,” which attempts to encapsulate in one song nothing less than the entire tale of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, to the dance instrumental “Do the Murray,” whose curious title is a tribute to Hidalgo’s recently deceased dog. There are also two Spanish-language numbers on Tin Can Trust, the cumbia “Yo Canto” and the norteño “Mujer Ingrata,” both of which forge a connection to the Mexican folk songs played by Los Lobos in their formative years. “In 1973, when we first formed,” Pérez recalled, “we were four guys from East L.A. who were friends from high school who played in local rock bands. Then once we got out of high school you still had four guys who were just hanging out together. So the natural progression of things is to just start playing music again. You’d think that we’d form a rock band but then out of nowhere somebody got this idea of ‘Let’s learn a Mexican song to play for somebody’s mom for their birthday’ or something. Mexican music was largely just wallpaper for us – it was always in the background, and we never paid much attention to it. We were modern kids who listened to rock and roll. Then when we finally dig up some old records to learn a couple of songs, that was a real revelation to us that this music is actually very complicated and challenging. So at that point we were off and running.” While their music has taken them around the world, made them a lot of fans and, probably a lot of money, too, Pérez said the key to any success they’ve had as a band started with the friendship they forged back in high school that continues today. “There’s this thing that still happens, this musical thing,” Pérez said. “But if you took everything away, even the music, you’d still end up with four guys who were friends and hung out and grew up in the same neighborhood. And you can’t take that friendship away from us.”
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Bordeaux Challenged by Consumer Culture
Luc Thienpont’s wine shed and art gallery
Where will the old standards of wine culture fit into the new consumer By Trond Arne Undheim
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he new wine consumer lives in a connected, 24/7 world, in a small but upscale urban apartment. She therefore believes in drinking, not storing wine, and is a trendy, smart, savvy consumer. She is part of a social network, believes in taking the initiative and knows what she likes when she sees it. Whether the wine is French, Australian or American, she wants wine with a story or at the very least, a cool label. She is part of a rapidly expanding multicultural demographic, one that is shunning the traditional wine elite, like the vineyards of Bordeaux. A recent New York Times article claims Bordeaux is losing prestige among young wine consumers. NYC sommeliers blame high prices and global competition. True, Chateau d’Yquem is harder to pronounce than Mondavi. But what is really going on?
I went to Bordeaux to find out. Highlights of the trip include a visit to the exclusive Chatueau Haut-Brion, and interviews with three wine industry trendsetters: Jean-Philippe Delmas, Luc Thienpont and Jean-Luc Thunevin. All of them rich, white males profoundly shaken up by the changing landscape of their consumers. Case Study 1: Haut-Brion is a vineyard dating back to 1525 with a stunning location in the middle of the city. It has been American owned since banker Clarence Dillon bought it in 1935, and I wonder how the French really feel about that. “Most of our visitors used to be wine aficiniados from France, Japan, and the U.S., but this year the Chinese will arrive in scores and they are only learning about wine,” said Turid Hoel Alcaras, Haut-Brion’s PR Manager. Jean-Philippe Delmas, manager of Haut-Brion, said, “Appreciating wine 18
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Bordeaux Online Whether you are going or dreaming, these sites will give you a flavor of where Bordeaux wine and culture is at right now. Links refer to wineries or vintners unless otherwise noted.
l Beychevelle (Japanese): www.beychevelle.com l Bordeaux (city): www.bordeaux-tourisme.com l Caudalie (wine spa): www.sources-caudalie.com l Cordeillan-Bages (resto): www.cordeillanbages.com l Domaine Clarence Dillon (American):
Luc Thienpont
www.domaineclarencedillon.com l Essentiel (wine bar): essentielthunevin.com l Jean-Luc Thunevin: www.etsthunevin.com l La Winery (expo): wine-tourism-france.winery.fr l Latour: www.chateau-latour.com l Luc Thienpont (Belgian): www.luc-thienpont.com l MaxBordeaux (wine bar): maxbordeaux.com l RelaisFrancMayne (upmarket B&B): www.relaisfrancmayne.com l Talbot: www.chateau-talbot.com l Vieux Chateau Certan (Belgian): vieuxchateaucertan.com
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is like appreciating music. You need a minimum amount of education to appreciate Chopin and Haut-Brion.” The implication being that the new wine consumer must be educated enough to even drink their wine and to appreciate it. Delmas has no apologies regarding quality: “Remember that our terroir is magical and complex and cannot be reproduced anywhere else. The taste of Haut-
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Brion, balanced, with scents of cigar box and vanilla, is unique. Case Study 2: Clos des Quatre Vents is a vineyard only known to a few conoisseurs. I found it by accident because they were the only store in Margaux open on the weekend. “My wines are like a classically beautiful woman who also happens to be lively,” said Luc Thienpont, a winemaker of Belgian wine royalty and co-owner of Vieux Chateau Certan who is also very down-to-earth: “I sometimes say wine tastes like grapes.” The implication being that the new wine consumer doesn’t need to know anything about wine to drink his wine and appreciate it. Case Study 3: From Silicon Valley, we know about the myth of companies that started in a garage, such as Hewlett Packard. The same is now true of wineries, even in traditional Bordeaux. Jean-Luc Thunevin, who created the French cult wine Chateau Valandraud, is widely regarded as the founder of what is called the “garage” movement. In an area with 10,000 different labels, Thunevin has also created a brand called Bad Boy. It is a response to the traditional style of red Bordeaux wine, which requires long ageing in the bottle to become drinkable. Instead,
Clos des Quatre Vins Margaux (2002, $50, 91/100)
Chateau Haut-Brion PessacLeognan (2004, $200, 96/100)
Tasted in owner and winemaker Luc Thienpont’s living room, blackcurrant, elegant, balanced, velvety, soft tannins, this wine is very ready to be enjoyed. Luc Thienpont’s Clos des Quatre Vents is an ultra small (1.2 ha/3 ac) vineyard on the top of the hill in Margaux, surrounded by the four top vineyards in the area. The unique terroir on deep gravel soil give it both elegance and power. Luc bought a badly maintained existing property and vineyard and renovated extensively. His vines average 60-80 years.
Deep ruby-red color with an elegant nose showing dark cherry, Haut-Brion has a unique aromatic signature: coffee, cedar, cigar box, caramel, lightly smoky, fruity but balanced, even a certain softness. Haut-Brion is planted with 55 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 25 percent Merlot, 20 percent Cabernet Franc. Average age of vines is 30 years. Its velvety elegance, representative, and harmonious style made this lucky drinker feel like he is calmly driving to Sunday school in a Ferrari (not that I have tried).
the garagists developed a bigger, bolder, fruitier style more consistent with international wine tastes. “It used to be that the Belgians and Russians controlled the market,” Thunevin observed, “but now wine consumers in Asia ensure that wine becomes even more of a status symbol and a speculative investment. Just look at the rise of Latour, Talbot and Beychevelle.” Beychevelle’s label is a Viking ship with a dragon’s head protruding from the bow. The winery itself looks like the aristocratic Versailles gardens. Such elements play well with the Chinese, as well as with me, being Norwegian. The implication being that what matters is what the wine producer knows about the new wine consumer. They will be won over either by the taste or the marketing. So where does that leave Bordeaux and the new wine consumer? Top tier Bordeaux Chateaux such as Haut-Brion will tend to float to the top but must deal with an ever increasing global demographic new to wine and all it represents. Wine is purchased for many different reasons, and taste, status and investment are intimately connected. The rest of Bordeaux will lose out to the global market, unless they have a unique offering. Niche players, such as Clos des Quatre Vents, are able to produce unique, affordable and down-to-earth wine. Garage wine labels, such as Bad Boy, which tailormake their wine to the consumer, turn the system upside down. What matters is what the consumer wants to drink, not what the wine aristocracy wants to make. In all of this, it is not that the desire to know anything about wine disappears, but that it transforms. The new wine consumer wants to know because she wants to own up to her own consumption habits. If she drinks wine, it should be her own choice and it should have meaning, pleasure or status, or all of the above.
Bad Boy Bordeaux (2005, $25, 88/100)
Jean-Luc Thunevin has produced a fruit forward wine with plum and cherry with earthy, nutty, chocolate and spicy undertones. Produced in clay and limestone terroir, Bad Boy is medium bodied, with a precise, attractive flavor profile and rounded off with some very nice tannins. Made from old vines, 40 years or older from the Bordeaux, Fronsac and Pomerol areas, with 95 percent Merlot and 5 percent Cabernet Franc grapes, the wine is eminently drinkable now. Why wait?
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Review:
Mumbai Chopstix China and India Have Never Seemed So Far Apart
By Aaron A. Arzu
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he allure of a new idea or cuisine lies in one question:
Will my meal deliver on the promise of something new, or will the challenge of executing the chef’s conception prove too much to overcome in practice?
In the case of the ambitious and hip Newbury Street eatery Mumbai Chopstix, the answer is, unfortunately, the latter. This new restaurant seeks to deliver ethnic Chinese dishes as informed by the spices, flavors, and cooking techniques of the Indian kitchen – it’s meant to be Chinese food as one might enjoy on the streets of, well, Mumbai. Alas, the attempt to bridge the gap between these cuisines falls short – conception far exceeds performance.
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Initially, the décor is encouraging. Kitschy Indian talismans and statuary blend harmoniously with Chinese iconography in the two-story dining rooms. A sizable patio provides plenty of room for grazing while sipping on the wide variety of exotic cocktails offered and, of course, people watching on oh-so-fabulous Newbury Street. Such ambiance doesn’t come cheap – entrees are in the $16 to $40 range. First, the positives: Our server was attentive, friendly, and knowledgeable about the menu and the drinks were well executed – although more skewed to the Indian side of the palate rather than the Chinese, this was no bad thing, as I enjoyed the Kingfisher Lager far more than the
Tsing Tao, and the mango Julius was cold, sweet and refreshing – the perfect way to cool down the spicy chili sauces on offer. We began our meal with Mumbai Chopstix’s take on that staple of Chinese cuisine, the dumpling. The steamed “momoh” was indistinguishable from the mainstream fare found at your neighborhood take-out place. The dipping sauce, a pleasantly acidic vinegar and cilantro, was tasty but reminiscent more of Latin cuisine than Indian. The tandoori chicken spring roll was styled like the classic Indian samosa, with a crispy, curry-scented Mumbai wrapper. Unfortunately, the Chopstix Located at 254 New- promise of the exterior was bury Street, Boston, let down by a bland and unMA. For reservations distinguished filling devoid of call 617-927-4444, or visit their website the remotest hint of tandoori at www.mumflavor or texture. baichopstix.com. Our second course provided the highlight of the meal; a wonderfully prepared Singapore-style fried rice noodle. The noodles were light, airy and perfectly sautéed, while the shrimp – so often overcooked in fried dishes – was perfectly done, savory and delicious. The Peking duck samosas, however, illustrated the perils of fusion cooking; while the Chinese-inspired duck filling was well-seasoned, the samosa dough was bland, and missed out on imparting any sense of India, other than the shape. Furthermore, the chili dipping sauce had no flavor other than overwhelming heat, and completely destroyed any chance of melding the Chinese and Indian flavors together. The entrée selections were equally disappointing, and suffered the same flaw; one ingredient (deemed “typical” of that cuisine) was overused, and dominated the dish, to its detriment. In the case of the Mongolian meatballs, the flavor and fine texture of the meat was overwhelmed by a cilantro sauce that was so pungent and piercing, that despite the bay leaf that was left intact in my dish, its taste was completely undetectable. As for the ginger lamb, the tender and succulent meat was led astray by the chef’s decision to use long strings of ginger, giving an overly potent shot of ginger with every bite. However, after adding the chili sauce provided on the table, a completely new dish emerged;tThe heat and flavor of the chili transformed the plate into a new and exciting experience. I only wish that the chef had included that element in the dish; it would have better fulfilled the promise of fusing the world’s oldest culinary traditions. Ultimately, stylish décor and a tony Newbury Street address do not compensate for Mumbai Chopstix’s culinary shortcomings. If sipping decent cocktails while seeing and being seen is your bag, then Mumbai Chopstix is not a bad deal. If you are seeking an adventurous culinary experience, I would urge you to pass on by.
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Weleda Wows! By Joanne M. Choi
Weleda Shaving Cream 2.5 OZ $12
Wild Rose Cleansing Lotion 3.4 FL OZ $22
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t’s story time for my inquisitive, three-year-old niece, the evening’s fare: Goldilocks. She listens carefully when the personal preferences of Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear are emphasized. To each their own (or as the french say chacun à son gout) certainly applies to beauty products, but is their one product line out that there that has something “just right” for everyone, or is that just a fairy tale?¶ Voila! Weleda – founded by Drs. Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman in the early 20th century with a core belief in anthroposophy – fits the bill. Rooted in the teachings of Dr. Steiner, this approach considers the mind, body and spirit as interconnected and attempts to “stimulate the natural healing forces within the human being.” The company is named after a Celtic priestess of healing; their logo has a straight line symbolizing the connection between heaven and earth, the “m” shaped line is for healing, and the two hands demonstrate the relationship between a patient and doctor. And Weleda practices Biodynamic Farming to boot.
Papa Bear’s experience with the Weleda Shaving Cream ($12) was the Papa hit of the family. Papa Bear Bear (aka Male Tester #1) shared that “Weleda wows [him] every day!” His background in chemistry might explain his detailed reports to me. “Weleda lathers easily with a brush, and it has a nice, natural fragrance; the essential oils kick butt. But the shave itself – I can only describe it as smooth as silk.” Note that this product is unisex and Mama Bear liked it too.
Mama Bear (aka moi) tested the Wild Rose Cleansing Lotion ($22). MAMA The organic rosehip oil Bear smelled lovely as I inspected the nondescript bottle’s contents. There was no harsh cleaning/ stripping after; the natural oil contained in the cleanser seemed to locate the extra oil in my skin and pulverize it gently – like how only chewing gum can really remove stuck chewing gum from a shoe. As a result, it wasn’t necessary to lather on a lot of moisturizer post wash. After six days of use, my skin was responding well to the cleanse, after a week and a half, I was still happy with the results. The essential oil blend seemed to penetrate my epidermis enough to do some restorative work and produce a rosy Swiss Miss radiance 6 hours later.
Baby Bear (actually two little tykes taking their evening bath) used the BABY Calendula Shampoo & Bear Body Wash ($11) on their young and delicate skin. The wash was suitable for them and foamed nicely. The flowery scent was pleasant – but stronger than expected – and must have come from the calendula flower extract. The Calendula Lotion ($13) was smooth and was nice enough to be used as well by Mama Bear for her dry legs! If Goldilocks had happened upon these products, she might have contently declared “just right” from the beginning.
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