Stephanie Schaefer ’11, a recent Holy Cross graduate, who now works for ‘JCK Magazine’ in New York, explains how her poetry courses as an English major taught her valuable skills for the business world in a post for ‘Engage The Blog.’
‘No matter what type of content we create,’ writes Schaefer. ‘Like poets, we must condense our language, speak in a unique voice, and subtly, yet powerfully, convey our theme.’
This ‘Holy Cross in the News item’ is by Sara Bovat ’14.
Author Sherry Turkle will visit the College of the Holy Cross to discuss how technology is altering our social lives.
In conjunction with the talk, on Feb. 17 all first-year students will take part in a technology-free day, by disconnecting from the internet and cell phones for 24 hours.
“The event is an opportunity to challenge ourselves to become more mindful of how the constant presence of certain technologies — the Web, texting, and social networking — shapes our experience of the world around us and our relationships with one another,” said Denise Schaeffer, director of Montserrat, the College’s unique program for all first-year students.
This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Sara Bovat ’14.
Two Holy Cross students received prizes for their artwork at the eighth annual Colleges of Worcester Consortium Student Art Exhibition. Lauren Wright ’12, of Biglerville, Pa., won second prize for her sculpture “Expose” and an honorable mention went to Michael Auth ’14, of Chatham, N.J., for his photo “Pomegranate #3.”
The show runs through March 1 at ARTSWorcester’s Aurora Gallery, 660 Main St.
Students from eight area colleges submitted 227 artworks in a variety of mediums. Susan Heideman, professor of art at Smith College, selected 88 works for the juried show. A total of 18 works by Holy Cross students are on exhibit.
“It’s wonderful to see so many students taking the initiative to apply to the ArtsWorcester college exhibition,” says Michael Beatty, associate professor of art and studio division head at Holy Cross. “A juried group show is always competitive and young artists are taking a risk putting their work into that selection process. It’s good to see that the work included by Holy Cross students is across a wide range of mediums including drawing, sculpture, painting, photography and printmaking. For me this reflects the overall strength of the visual arts program and the tremendous dedication and talent of our students.”
Wright, a studio art major in the Teacher Education Program, created “Expose” as part of last semester’s Sculpture course taught by Beatty. The piece consists of a long piece of dead wood (bark attached) sliced in half vertically, another long piece of wood cut horizontally into cross sections (stripped of bar) and inserted into the wood perpendicularly to the former sections forming a zipper-like object.
“The piece is titled ‘Expose’ because the interior of the trees are sliced open in a way that exposes the tree’s vulnerability, yet it also exposes the viewer to the beauty of the patterning of the rings and the fungus within,” she says.
The Holy Cross students who have their artwork on display, along with the titles, are:
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Sweeney Todd
The College of the Holy Cross Alternate College Theater (ACT) presents “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” directed by Molly Oliver ’12, at the Fenwick Theater (second floor of O’Kane Hall) from Feb. 9 – 11 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 11 – 12 at 2 p.m. “Sweeney Todd” is a widely known 1979 musical thriller based on the 1973 play by Christopher Bond. Tickets are $10 for members of the Holy Cross community and $15 for the general public. Tickets can be reserved by calling the ACT box office at (508) 793-3536 or in the Hogan Lobby this week Feb. 7-10 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The musical follows the life of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, as he returns to London after 15 years of deportation, due to false charges. After his landlady Mrs. Lovett informs him that his wife poisoned herself after being assaulted by the judge who wrongly sentenced him, Sweeney Todd wishes nothing—but to seek revenge.
“I’ve always loved the story. The music is absolutely beautiful and incredibly difficult and the characters are big, charismatic and alluring,” shares Oliver. “It tells the story of many characters—both good and evil with everything in between—who are affected by a corrupt, changing society.”
ACT is a student-run organization at Holy Cross. In each production, students manage every aspect from directing and acting to lighting and set design. Patrick Chiarolanzio ’13 is cast as Sweeney Todd and Kate Sheridan ’12 will play Mrs. Lovett. Other cast members include Matt Helfer ’12, Jessica Pilloni ’12, Christian Krenek ’12, Conor Sullivan ’14, Patrick Simas ’14, David Martinez ’12, Danielle Santos ’14, and Solon Kelleher ’15. The production crew includes Hallie Bianco ’12, set designer; Will FitzMaurice ’14, lighting designer; Annie Le ’13, costume designer; Susmita Mukherjee ’14, stage manager; Caitlin Crowley ’12, producer; Zachary Maybury ’12, music director; and Kercofa Francois ’12, vocal director.
The Princeton Review named the College of the Holy Cross one of 75 “Best Value” private colleges for 2012. Based on institutional data and student opinion surveys from hundreds of “the nation’s academically best undergraduate institutions,” schools were selected according to several criteria including academics, cost, and financial aid.
Noting Holy Cross’ commitment to academic rigor, The Princeton Review referenced the College’s extraordinary faculty and their emphasis on teaching. “It’s the professors that make students’ four years at Holy Cross an extraordinary value,” they point out. Holy Cross “does an incredible job of giving its students a very broad education [and] preparing them with the tools for the real world.”
With regard to financial aid, The Princeton Review called out Holy Cross’ “need-blind” admissions policy—through which the College accepts students regardless of their ability to pay and then meets 100% of their need. “No student or family should be dissuaded from applying to Holy Cross because of the price tag,” they say.
Also highlighted were Holy Cross’ strong alumni network, “top-notch Career Planning Center and Summer Internship Program,” and “remarkably welcoming campus.”
This “Holy Cross in the News” item by Kristine Maloney.
John Grew
Canadian organist John Grew will perform as part of the Chapel Artist Series on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross. The program will include selections from Dieterich Buxtehude, Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Johann Pachelbel, Bernardo Pasquini, and Johann Sebastian Bach. The performance is free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.
Grew is the university organist at McGill University in Quebec, Canada, where he established the university’s early music program, the largest of its kind in Canada. He is also the chair of the organ and church music area of the Schulich School of Music and the founding artistic director of the biannual McGill Summer Organ Academy.
Grew has performed concerts extensively in North America and Europe as both an organist and harpsichordist in addition to appearing with many chamber orchestras including Tafelmusik (Toronto), the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
The final performance for the 2011-12 Chapel Artist Series:
Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 3 p.m.–Philippe Lefebvre, organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
For more information about any of the performances in the Chapel Artists Series, please call the music department at (508) 793-2296, or visit the department’s website.
Mary Jo Salter
Award-winning poet Mary Jo Salter will host a discussion of the writer’s craft at 3:30 p.m. in Fenwick 330, followed by a reading of her poetry as part of the Working Writers Series at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16 in the Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library at the College of the Holy Cross. Both events are free and open to the public.
Salter is a poet, editor, essayist, playwright, lyricist, and children’s book author. She is best-known for her numerous volumes of published poetry and for her work as a lyricist. Her most recent book is her sixth collection of poems, “A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems” (March 2008). Previous publications include: “Henry Purcell in Japan (1985); “Unfinished Painting,” which was the 1989 Lamont Selection for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry; “Sunday Skaters,” which was nominated in 1994 for the National Book Critics Circle Award; “A Kiss in Space” (1999), and “Open Shutters” (2003), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In addition, Salter has published a children’s book called “The Moon Comes Home” (1989), and a play that is titled “Falling Bodies,” which was first produced in 2004.
She has also won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to writing poetry, Salter is the poetry editor at the New Republic and co-editor of the fourth and fifth editions of the “Norton Anthology of Poetry.” She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
The 2011-12 Working Writers Series will continue throughout the spring semester with the following events:
• Thursday, March 15 – Scott Russell Sanders will discuss the nonfiction writer’s craft and talk on the vocation of the writer, which is sponsored by The McFarland Center.
• Thursday, March 28 – Danielle Evans will read selections from her fiction.
• Thursday, April 12 – Andrew Solomon will perform a reading of his nonfiction, sponsored by the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters.
The Working Writers Series was formerly known as the Visiting Writers Series.
Remarks delivered by Clarence Thomas ’71, associate justice of the United States, upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Holy Cross at a special Academic Convocation on Jan. 26, 2012.
Thank you, Father Boroughs. Well, this is a little tough to be here. I’d like to first thank Father Brooks. I’d like to certainly thank my friends and classmates who are here.
I’ll be brief. But I have to say when it takes this long to get a degree, it means a lot. I’d like to thank all of you for this tremendous honor. I must say that I am a little embarrassed and uncomfortable receiving this honor for doing what I am expected to do as a graduate of Holy Cross and required to do as a citizen of this great country. I am appreciative, humbled and I’m unworthy. Yet I’m profoundly and deeply honored. It is I who should be honoring Holy Cross and all the wonderful teachers, administrators and staff who helped me more than four decades ago. And it is I, who should be boldly expressing my gratitude for all that they did for me.
In the summer of 1968, I had no place to go and no idea what I was going to do. I had applied to Holy Cross during a tumultuous time in this country, in our country, and in my life. In a sense, the broader tumult helped to fuel my personal confusion and anger. The final straw was the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Impetuously, I quit the seminary, abandoning my vocation and, unfortunately, my faith. I was booted immediately out of my grandfather’s house as I returned home. I was 19.
My only hope was Holy Cross, a place I had never seen, and had barely heard of. Though there was some uncertainty about financial aid and transfers of credit from my first year of college at Immaculate Conception Seminary, I was assured that it all could and would be worked out. I made many, many anxious calls to Holy Cross that summer of 1968, a terrible summer in our country; having been informed by the operator that there was no such place as “Worchester,” Massachusetts. Only Woos-tah. You work out that spelling.
I arrived by bus in the fall, apprehensive but hopeful. As we passed Holy Cross on our way to the bus station downtown, I caught my first distant glimpse of Holy Cross . But, I had no appreciation of just how big a difference three years here would make on my life.
I dare not attempt to chronicle the challenges and difficulties during those three fateful years; suffice it to say that, there were quite a few. But through it all, the Cross was a constant. Yes, like all institutions during challenging times, it buckled, it swayed, and it creaked. But the Cross held steady, and in doing so it steadied those of us who were buffeted about by our collective and respective difficulties. Academically, the then-seemingly too rigid structure of the core requirements forced education on me rather than abandoning me to my own unguided devices. For me, there were many hard lessons to be learned; sentiment and emotion are no substitute for analysis and reason. Fleeting fads and causes du jour are not the same as enduring principles. From predestination to existentialism, and from natural law to nihilism.
Holy Cross required that I travel the disciplined and rugged terrain of theory and thought of the transcendent and the palpable. It is here that I enjoyed the first brief glimpses of what it meant to be educated. It is here that I came to enjoy classical music and reading. It is here that I tried to exchange the cloak of animus and self-pity for that of hopefulness and charity. It is here that I tried to sort out the difference between collectivism and individualism and came to treasure the latter and abhor the former. It is here that I came to more fully understand deferred gratification, struggle and commitment. It is here that I took one long, painful step to becoming a man. Here, where faith was lost, the seeds for its restoration were planted. And it was here, directly in front of the chapel on the morning of April 16, 1970, that I promised Almighty God that if he took hate out of my heart I would never hate again. He did, and I have not.
Holy Cross has been good to me and for me. It is I who owe the debt of eternal gratitude. I owe a very particular debt of gratitude to Father. Brooks. Father, I thank you, I thank God you were born, I thank God you became a priest and that you came to Holy Cross. I know I speak for many, when I say that had there been no Father Brooks we would not be where we are. I certainly wouldn’t. You are a sine qua non in my life. I know that I am the better for you having lived. You were paternal but never paternalistic. You saw each of us as a person not a project. You wanted the fullness of humanity for all of us, our thoughts, our mistakes, our triumphs, our redemption. You loved us. God bless you, Father, for your wonderful, wonderful life.
In parting, let me say this: When all is quiet at the end of this life I hope that those few, those very few, who might have cause to remember that one day, long ago, a lonely kid from Georgia had no place to go. And when they wonder who took him in and helped him to heal and to prosper, let them hear their answer in the quiet whispers of the wind sweeping across Mount St. James: The Cross, the Cross, always the Cross.
Thank you.
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In an opinion piece for America Magazine, Timothy O’Brien ’06, a Jesuit scholastic preparing for the priesthood, reflected on his first encounter with the Ignatian value of being “contemplatives in action.” It was an introductory art history course at the College of the Holy Cross with Professor Joanna Ziegler, where he and his classmates were asked to simply contemplate over a painting at the Worcester Art Museum as a way to experience God’s graces of mystery, beauty, and meditation.
O’Brien wrote, “For her [Professor Ziegler], introducing a class to art history involved our learning how to see, understood as both a spiritual and physical activity. We learned, or tried at least, to be attentive and heedful, to wonder at something beautiful.”
Ziegler passed away in November 2011.
This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Sara Bovat ’14.
Sherry Turkle
Author and professor Sherry Turkle will give a talk based on her new book, “Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other” (Basic Books, January 2011) on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is sponsored by the Center for Teaching in collaboration with Student Affairs and is free and open to the public. The talk will be followed by a book signing.
Turkle’s talk will explore the new intimacies, solitudes, and ethical dilemmas of our digital age. “Technology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies. And these days, networked devices offer substitutes for direct face-to-face connection with people. As we instant message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, the network redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude,” shares Turkle. “What this means is that we often find ourselves too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to create, and in a final irony, too busy communicating to connect in the ways that matter.”
“Sherry Turkle’s new book raises questions on how students are growing up and learning in a digital era,” explains Amy Wolfson, director of the Center for Teaching. “It’s important to discuss and think about how we are using technology in the classroom today.”
Many students in Montserrat, the College’s unique program for all first-year students, are reading Turkle’s book in their classes. In conjunction with the talk, on Feb. 17 all first-year students will take part in a technology-free day, by disconnecting from the internet and cell phones for 24 hours. “The event is an opportunity to challenge ourselves to become more mindful of how the constant presence of certain technologies—the web, texting, and social networking—shapes our experience of the world around us and our relationships with one another,” explains Denise Schaeffer, director of Montserrat. “The goal is to create some space to reflect critically on a part of today’s world that influences our lives in ways we may not realize, since we almost never step back from it.”
Turkle is a professor, author, consultant, researcher, and licensed clinical psychologist who has spent the last 30 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her many books include a trilogy on digital technology and human relationships: “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit” (The MIT Press, 2005), “Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet” (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and most recently, “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other.”
David Schaefer
In a CNN.com article, David Schaefer, professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross, talks about how Watergate reforms actually hurt the election process. “The post-Watergate restrictions on campaign fundraising inspired savvy political operators to devise more backdoor ways than ever to steer big money to candidates,” Schaefer told the reporter.
He points to the 2002 McCain-Feingold law as an example. “The law set strict limits on contributions to candidates and parties. The result: the rise of ‘independent’ PACs that can receive up to $5,000 from an individual or a national party committee in a calendar year. PACs often make it easier for a candidate’s supporters to attack their opponents,” Schaefer says.
This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Sara Bovat ’14.
In NPR’s Planet Money Friday Podcast, Associate Professor of Economics at the College of the Holy Cross Victor Matheson, asserts that hosting the Super Bowl does not actually boost the host city’s local economy by $300-500 million, as NFL estimates state.
“Any local Indianapolis folk go down to the events related to the Super bowl,” said Matheson, “They are spending money at the Super Bowl that would otherwise be spent elsewhere in the local economy, and so that’s just shifting money around. That’s not new money coming into the economy. That’s just money being spent on football and Super Bowl activities, rather than somewhere else.”
He also explained that although hotels are charging higher prices for rooms during Super Bowl weekend, that money is usually funneled back to corporate chain headquarters and does not benefit local workers or the local economy.
This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Sara Bovat ’14.
A new event celebrating the rich faith traditions at Holy Cross was met with great interest on the afternoon of Jan. 24, the day that spring semester classes started.
Marybeth Kearns-Barrett, director of the Chaplains’ Office, expected a small group to attend the first Campuswide Multifaith Prayer in Mary Chapel. Instead, more than 300 students, faculty and staff took part.
“We were delighted with the response to the Community Prayer and we plan to make it an annual tradition,” she says. “Having received such an enthusiastic response from a wide cross section of the Holy Cross community, we feel the prayer responded to a desire on campus to find ways to pray and celebrate together the various faith traditions that make up Holy Cross today.”
The prayer was led by Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., president, and Virginia Coakley, assistant chaplain and director of Protestant and ALANA (African-American, Latin American, Asian-American, and Native American heritage) ministry. Members of the Holy Cross community representing their respective faiths read and sang prayers from their traditions.
Photography by Rob Carlin
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BSU Fashion Show
The Black Student Union (BSU) at the College of the Holy Cross, a student organization that promotes unity among the black community at Holy Cross, is sponsoring a number of events for Black History Month. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. at Worcester’s Mechanics Hall: Black and Gold Fashion Show. Dinner is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the fashion show will begin at 8 p.m. This semi-formal event, held during Black History Month, is a celebration of Black history and culture. Tickets, with dinner included, cost $15 for Holy Cross students, $20 for Consortium students, and $23 for staff, faculty and the public. Learn more about the fashion show in Pulse Magazine.
Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Suites B/C: Love Forum. This annual event provides students with the opportunity to speak candidly and ask questions regarding their appreciation, concerns and the unique nature of love within the African diasporic community. (Campus community only.)
Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Suites B/C: Martin Luther King Jr. “More than a Dream” Part 1. A community discussion about how and why Martin Luther King was more than his “I Have a Dream” speech. The discussion will be led by Thomas Doughton, senior lecturer at Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies; Michael West, associate professor of history; and Virginia Coakley, assistant chaplain and director of Protestant and ALANA (African-American, Latin American, Asian-American, and Native American heritage) ministry.
Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Suite A: Martin Luther King Jr. “More than a Dream” Part 2. Robert Jones, from the office of multicultural education, will lead a Kingian Nonviolence Workshop. Kingian Nonviolence is a philosophy that provides tools for people to use peaceful approaches in order to solve problems.
Feb. 29 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lower Chapel: Black History Month Heritage Horizon Candlelight Ceremony. Virginia Coakley, assistant chaplain and director of Protestant and ALANA ministry, will lead a candlelight ceremony.
In a Bloomberg.com article about the Super Bowl’s possible economic impact on Indianapolis, Victor Matheson, associate professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross, warned that the city might not see the economic gains promised by the NFL.
“A rule of thumb economists use is to take whatever the organizers tell you and move the decimal point one place to the left,” Matheson advised. “There’s every reason to believe the Super Bowl will make Indianapolis residents happy. But there’s no reason to believe it will make them rich.”
This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Sara Bovat ’14.
Alan Rosen, a renowned scholar of Holocaust literature, will give a lecture titled “The Words, Too, Will Nourish: Poetry and Resistance” on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The lecture, supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish Christian Understanding, is free and open to the public.
Rosen’s lecture will question if poetry written during and in the aftermath of the Holocaust is a form of resistance. If so, he asks, how and what does it resist? Rosen will draw on, among others, the poetry of Avraham Sutzkever.
Rosen studied under the supervision of renowned Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. He has taught Holocaust literature at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Israel, including Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem.
Rosen has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research, the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Archives for the History of American Psychology at the University of Akron.
His books include The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (Oxford University Press, 2010), Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English (University of Nebraska Press, 2005) and Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre (Peter Lang Publishing, 2001).
To learn more about this event and find lectures online, visit www.holycross.edu/mcfarlandcenter.
About the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture:
Established in 2001 and housed in Smith Hall, the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture provides resources for faculty and course development, sponsors conferences and college-wide teaching events, hosts visiting fellows, and coordinates a number of campus lecture series. Rooted in the College’s commitment to invite conversation about basic human questions, the Center welcomes persons of all faiths and seeks to foster dialogue that acknowledges and respects differences, providing a forum for intellectual exchange that is interreligious, interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international in scope. The Center also brings members of the Holy Cross community into conversation with the Greater Worcester community, the academic community, and the wider world to examine the role of faith and inquiry in higher education and in the larger culture.
Michael Kennedy
Amy Murphy, director of career planning at the College of the Holy Cross, and Michael Kennedy, a member of the class or 2012, talked to the Telegram & Gazette about how a degree in liberal arts leads to a successful career. “The beauty of being at a liberal arts institution like Holy Cross is your major doesn’t matter,” Murphy told the reporter. “Employers want to see you do your best academic work, leadership in what you’re involved in and internships for the contextual work piece. Those are the three legs of the stool that makes up their career portfolio.”
Kennedy, a history major from Montville Township, N.J., said he “isn’t worried about graduating with a history degree and starting up the career ladder.”
He’s already lined up a position for after graduation as an analyst at investment firm Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Purchase, N.Y.
He told the Telegram & Gazette that his “liberal arts background has given him valuable skills in speaking and writing effectively, in research and in being able to synthesize information well.”
This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Sara Bovat ’14.
Members of the Holy Cross Presidential Task Force on the Environment submitted a Carbon Neutral Plan Progress Report to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment on January 12. The report is an overview of the implementation to date of the College’s Climate Action Plan, submitted in fulfillment of ACUPCC requirements.
The report states that the College is on its way to becoming carbon neutral by the year 2040, with a 28 percent decrease in greenhouse gas gross emissions between the baseline year (fiscal year 2007) and the most recent published inventory year (fiscal year 2010).
The Presidential Task Force on the Environment is responsible for overseeing the College’s response to the President’s Climate Commitment, under the leadership of selected faculty, students and staff.
“When adjusting for building area and annual weather conditions, preliminary calculations indicate a steady year-on-year decrease in the campus carbon footprint,” the progress report reads. “This has been accomplished through several initiatives: purchase of low carbon electricity, fuel switching, new building construction to LEED specifications, and implementation of a multitude of energy efficiency projects.”
Since fiscal year 2007, Holy Cross has implemented approximately 40 energy projects which have contributed to the campus-wide greenhouse gas reductions. Approximately 26 additional projects are currently planned but not yet implemented.
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SmartMoney.com called upon Victor Matheson, associate professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross and expert in sports economics, for their list of ten little-known facts about one of the most highly anticipated sporting event of the year.
Number one on their list of things the Super Bowl won’t say: Good luck getting a ticket. “You have to have a lot of cash and a lot of luck to end up at the Super Bowl,” said Matheson, who pointed out that in addition to high ticket prices, airlines and hotels often mark up their rates as well.
Number nine: The hoopla isn’t super for the local economy. According to Matheson, local communities who host the Super Bowl do not actually gain the promised estimation of $500 million. He said, “We think the numbers are greatly exaggerated,” because they don’t take into account that such spending takes away from money that would normally go to other local businesses and events.
This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Sara Bovat ’14.
Leah Hager Cohen, critically acclaimed nonfiction writer and novelist and the College of the Holy Cross Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters; and Stephanie Reents, award-winning writer and assistant professor of English at the College; will read from their new books of fiction as part of the Working Writers Series on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library at the College. The event, sponsored by the College’s Creative Writing Program and the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters, is free and open to the public.
Cohen has written four novels, most recently The Grief of Others—which just came out last fall—and House Lights (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007); and four non-fiction books, including Train Train Go Sorry (Houghton Mifflin, 1994) and Glass, Paper, Beans (Doubleday, 1997). In addition to serving as the Jenks Chair in of Contemporary American Letters at Holy Cross, she teaches in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Lesley University and regularly contributes to the New York Times Book Review.
Reents’ fiction has been included in the O. Henry Prize Stories, noted in Best American Short Stories, and has appeared in numerous journals. She has been a Bread Loaf Conference Scholar, a Wallace Stegner Fellow, and a Rhodes Scholar. Her collection of short stories, The Kissing List, will be published by Hogarth later this spring. She teaches creative writing at Holy Cross.
The Working Writers Series was formerly known as the Visiting Writers Series.
