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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Bishop Healy Multicultural Society has planned a week of events dedicated to educating the community on the effects of the AIDS/HIV epidemic and to building compassion for victims and their loved ones. This is the fifth consecutive year of AIDS Compassion and Awareness Week, the largest and most important event the Society sponsors. The events, free and open to the public unless otherwise noted, run between Nov. 29 and Dec. 2.

Nov. 29
TBA
Panel Discussion
The discussion will focus on the church’s past, present, and future role in the fight against AIDS. Members of the faculty will talk about the practical, ethical, and spiritual sides of this issue.

Nov. 30
5 p.m., McCooey Chapel
Prayer Vigil
In keeping with tradition, there will be a prayer vigil in the McCooey Chapel to call to mind all those affected by the disease. The student-led service will include special readings and music designed to support the respect for those dealing with HIV/AIDS.

Dec. 1 (World AIDS Awareness Day)
6p.m., Field House
3 vs. 3 Basketball Tournament
Admission: $15 a team
This year, in an effort to branch out to a wider selection of people, BHMS will hold a fundraiser in the form of a basketball tournament. All proceeds will be donated to the society’s main organizations, AIDS Project Worcester, Inc. and the Pendulum Project. Teams can sign up at the lobby table in Hogan.

Dec. 2: The AIDS Compassion & Awareness Week Charity Banquet – “Keep the Promise”
Doors open at 5 p.m., seating begins at 5:30, dinner served at 6
Hogan Campus Center Ballroom
Admission: $12 for Holy Cross students, $15 for other students and $20 for non-students
This event will serve as an educational event and fundraiser open to the Holy Cross and Worcester community. All proceeds will be donated to AIDS Project Worcester and the Pendulum Project. The attire for the banquet is semi-formal. Dinner will be provided by Hogan Dining Services. There will be student performances, a slide show, speakers, and displays of special projects from AIDS Project Worcester and Holy Cross students. Those who helped with the week’s preparations will give special presentations.

The emphasis of the banquet will be on this year’s theme for World AIDS Day, “Keep the Promise – Accountability,” and what that means for the community as the College tries to live by its mission statement of “men and women for others.”

WORCESTER, Mass. – Ruth Wedgwood, the Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, and Director of the Program in International Law and Organization at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C., will deliver the 41st annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The event, titled “Fighting Terrorism Within the Law,” is free and open to the public.

Wedgwood will talk about the problems of the “failure of deterrence” — both in criminal law and international strategy — in dealing with non-state actors such as al Qaeda and the difficulties of anticipation and interception, rather than waiting for events to unfold, in the required factual showings for use of force and application of criminal law. She will also address the attempted moral distinction between action and passivity — the assumption of some that it is morally preferable to refrain from action, where the foundation is uncertain, even at the cost of failing to protect against malevolent ends by other actors — measuring this against the new view about an affirmative “responsibility to protect.” She will also talk about the general chaos of battlefields as a challenge to the idea of predicated action and fact-finding that are characteristic of the law.

Wedgwood serves on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law and the CIA’s Historical Review Panel. She also serves as the American member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Wedgwood has commented frequently on issues of terrorism and the law on National Public Radio, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” and BBC, among other media outlets. She has testified before the Senate on issues of war crimes, Presidential war powers and trying Saddam Hussein.

At Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where she was previously professor of law, Wedgwood has taught courses and seminars on general public international law, the United Nations, global constitutionalism, international human rights, war crimes and terrorism, the law of armed conflict, constitutional foreign affairs power, international arbitration, and American legal history.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Ruth Wedgwood, the Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, and Director of the Program in International Law and Organization at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C., will deliver the 41st annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The event, titled “Fighting Terrorism Within the Law,” is free and open to the public.

Wedgwood serves on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law and the CIA’s Historical Review Panel. She also serves as the American member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Wedgwood has commented frequently on issues of terrorism and the law on National Public Radio, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” and BBC, among other media outlets. She has testified before the Senate on issues of war crimes, Presidential war powers and trying Saddam Hussein.

At Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where she was previously professor of law, Wedgwood has taught courses and seminars on general public international law, the United Nations, global constitutionalism, international human rights, war crimes and terrorism, the law of armed conflict, constitutional foreign affairs power, international arbitration, and American legal history.

The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.

Since 1965, the Hanify-Howland lecture series has brought to the Holy Cross campus a series of distinguished speakers on public affairs who have exemplified in their own work the spirit of public service that the series was established to encourage. They include Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Robert M. Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless; Leon R. Kass, former Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics; Christopher J. Matthews (Holy Cross Class of 1967), MSNBC “Hardball” anchor; the Honorable Clarence Thomas (Class of 1971), associate justice of the Supreme Court; the late Paul E. Tsongas, former senator of Massachusetts; and Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross head football coach Tom Gilmore was selected as the Patriot League Coach of the Year.  In addition, seven players were placed on the 2006 All-Patriot League football teams.

Senior cornerback Casey Gough, junior wide receiver Ryan Maher, senior offensive tackle Hall McMillan and senior offensive guard Andrew Schoepfer were all named to the All-Patriot League first team; while senior linebacker Dan Adams, junior wide receiver Thomas Harrison and senior defensive end John Markus Pinard were second team selections.

Coach Gilmore led the Crusaders to an overall record of 7-4 this season, including a third place finish in the Patriot League with a 4-2 mark in conference games. This year, Holy Cross posted its best overall record and its best league mark since 2000.

Gilmore’s team led the Patriot League in several statistical categories, including total offense (384.4 yards per game), passing offense (271.5 yards per game), pass efficiency defense (108.4 rating), first downs (239) and third down conversions (46.3 percent). This came with a team which returned only 11 out of 22 starters from a year ago, including only three starters coming back on offense. Gilmore has now led the Crusaders to a 13-9 overall mark during the last two seasons, and owns a career record of 16-17.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Five members of the College of the Holy Cross faculty have been honored with the Arthur J. O’Leary Faculty Recognition Award. These $10,000 honoraria are given each year by the Senior Vice President to senior faculty members who make a special contribution to Holy Cross through their teaching, scholarship and/or service. The O’Leary Awards are intended to honor the recipients, to advance their work, and to encourage other members of the faculty to attain a high level of professional achievement and to be a positive influence in lives of students. The 2006 recipients include:

Susan Amatangelo, associate professor in the modern languages and literatures department, earned her Ph.D. in Italian literature from Harvard University. While at Holy Cross, she has been a member of the Academic Affairs Council as well as a study abroad liaison for students studying in Florence. Founding the Holy Cross chapter of the Italian honor society, Gamma Kappa Alpha, in 1998, Amatangelo has served as both president and vice president of the Holy Cross chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She is the author of Figuring Women: A Thematic Study of Giovanni Verga’s Female Characters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004). Amatangelo is a resident of Worcester.

Mark C. Hallahan, associate professor of psychology, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was an assistant professor at Clemson University (S.C.) from 1996-99 and a lecturer at Harvard University from 1995-96. A member of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the American Psychological Society, Hallahan serves as a reviewer for several professional journals, including the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. He is a resident of Holden.

Marybeth Kearns-Barrett, associate chaplain in the Office of the College Chaplains and director of Service and Social Justice Programs, has been a chaplain at Holy Cross since 1991. She serves as faculty advisor to Student Programs for Urban Development (SPUD), the largest student organization of community service programs on campus, and the Student Coalition for Hunger and Homelessness (SCOHAH). She coordinates the Post-Graduate Volunteer Fair and advises students interested in full-time volunteer work following graduation in programs such as the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. She also supervises the SPUD Academic Year Lilly Interns and is president of the board of directors of Abby’s House, a shelter for battered women and their children. She lives in Worcester.

Catherine A. Roberts, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2001, she is the director of the Environmental Studies program. Roberts has received several research grants, including three from the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is editor of Natural Resource Modeling, an interdisciplinary journal published by the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium and the Resource Modeling Association. Roberts lives in Jefferson.

Ward J. Thomas, associate professor of political science, earned his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1997, he has served on a number of College committees, including the Student Life Council, the Curriculum Committee, the Committee on Academic Standing, and the Faculty Affairs Committee. He is the author of The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and Force in International Relations (Cornell University Press, 2001), and his articles have appeared in International Security, Security Studies, Armed Forces & Society, Sciences Humaines (Paris), The Boston Globe, and other publications. He is currently working on a book about normative change and the use of force by nonstate actors. He lives in West Boylston.

The Arthur J. O’Leary Faculty Recognition Awards have been made possible by an endowed gift to the College from Thomas H. O’Leary ’54, former President, CEO and Chairman of Burlington Resources, in memory of his father, Arthur J. O’Leary.

Related information:

http://www.holycross.edu/departments/publicaffairs/hcm/summer01/GAA/gaa-adv4-sum01.html

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross senior Nicholas Bulens has been selected by the College’s Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies as one of two recipients of the 2006 fall semester’s Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away program award. He will present his thesis, “Foreign Security Surveillance and Court Warrants: Can the President Have One Without the Other?,” on Nov. 29 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross.

While in Washington, D.C., Bulens interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee in the office of its Ranking Member, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Bulens conducted research on legislative matters pertinent to the federal judiciary, drafted memoranda on such Committee issues as mergers and acquisitions, and helped the committee staff prepare for hearings on upcoming legislation, including the Voting Rights Act.

Bulens’s talk will explore whether the President, under the laws and Constitution of the United States, may authorize electronic surveillance of persons within the country for foreign security purposes but without prior judicial approval.

He researched the Foreign Security Surveillance Act of 1978, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, as well as legal texts and opinions in writing his thesis.

Bulens is a political science major and an economics minor from Weymouth. He is chair of the Judicial Council for the Student Government Association, and a member of both the Chamber Orchestra and College Democrats. After graduation, he hopes to work in a political office in either Boston or Washington, D.C., and is considering attending law school.

The Vannicelli Prize is awarded each semester in honor of the late Holy Cross political science professor and Washington Semester director Maurizio Vannicelli. The prize rewards the best research paper produced in the Washington Semester Away program. Because judges deemed two papers as excellent this semester, two winners were chosen (the other is Justinas Sileikis ’07). The recipients of the prize are given the opportunity to give a public lecture at the College on their thesis. In addition the winners receive a bound copy of the theses and are presented the book award during commencement exercises.

WORCESTER, Mass. – On Nov. 19, “Worcester: Academically Speaking” will feature Beth Sweeney, associate professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, who will discuss the remarkable history of poetry in Worcester with readings and analysis of poems by Stanley Kunitz, Elizabeth Bishop and Frank O’Hara. Professor Sweeney will also give an overview of the contemporary poetry scene in Worcester. Tune in 7:30 – 8 a.m. on WTAG 580 AM.

On Nov. 26, Sweeney will share her poetry and the life experiences that inspired her poems on “Worcester: Academically Speaking,” with host Jim Hannon.  Dr. Sweeney was the 2005 first-prize winner of the annual contest sponsored by the Worcester County Poetry Association for her poem, “Revenant,” a meditation on her resemblance to and relationship with an older sister who took her own life. Tune in 7:30 – 8 a.m., on WTAG 580 AM.

“Worcester: Academically Speaking” is sponsored by the Community Relations Committee of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Inc.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross Alternate College Theater presents Rumors, a hilarious farce by the comic mainstay of American theatre, Neil Simon, on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.; Dec. 2 at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. in Fenwick Theatre at the College of the Holy Cross. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for members of the Holy Cross community.

The play is about four couples who congregate to celebrate the 10th wedding anniversary of two of their circle. Upon arrival at the honored couple’s house, they find the husband bleeding, the wife missing, the maid gone, and no evident party preparations. As each pair arrives at the house, the friends react to the situation and try to sort things out before the police arrive. It’s an evening of laughs, chaos, and just a little bit of mayhem.

The Alternate College Theater is a student organization at Holy Cross. In each production, students manage every aspect from directing and acting to lighting and set design. For the production of Rumors, Dan Cabrera ’07 directs. Other members of the production staff include lighting designer Pat Gavin ’07, costume designer Katherine Fritz ’08, set designer Mary Beth Cotty ’09, and stage manager Mary Crowley ’08.

Rumors is suitable for all audiences.

For press tickets or for more information, contact Kerin McCauley at kkmcca09@holycross.edu or call the ACT box office at 508-793-3536.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Janis F. Kearney, who served as Bill Clinton’s diarist during his years in the White House, will give a talk titled “The Clinton Legacy — Voices from Black America” on Nov. 28 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

In 1995, Kearney became the first presidential diarist in U.S. history, chronicling Clinton’s day-to-day life. She remained in this capacity until Clinton left office. Kearney’s book, Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton, From Hope to Harlem (Writing Our World Press), released Sept. 5, is an oral biography centered around conversations with African-Americans from every region of the country, and spanning 30 years of Clinton’s political career. She spent two years traveling the country to talk with men and women about Clinton.

The event is sponsored by Africana Studies, Black Student Union, English department, Women’s and Gender Studies, political science, Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College and the President’s Office.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Tim Wise, a prominent anti-racist writer and activist, will give a talk titled “Race Is Not a Card: White Privilege, Institutional Racism and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice” on Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in Suites B/C of the Hogan Campus Center.

The talk will address privilege, racism, and what this means for both majority and minority groups.

Wise is the director of the Association for White Anti-Racist Education based in Nashville, Tenn. and author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (RoutledgeFalmer, 2005).

On Nov. 4, Wise was featured on ABC’s “20/20” which devoted two hours to highlighting white privilege in America. A Tulane University graduate, he has been the guest speaker at more than 400 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the law schools at Yale, Columbia and Vanderbilt universities.

The event is sponsored by the Multicultural Peer Educators (MPE) in the Office of Multicultural Education and the Office of the Chaplains.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation has made an unprecedented $1 million commitment to the art gallery at the College of the Holy Cross. The College will raise an additional $600,000 in matching funds in connection with this gift.

The Cantor Foundation gift will be the largest ever received by the College’s art gallery which was established by and named for the Cantors in 1983. Loyal benefactors to the College’s fine arts collection, Iris Cantor and her husband donated 53 works of art, ranging from bronze sculptures by the French artist Auguste Rodin to 18th century Italian mosaics.

“Every aspect of the Cantor Gallery’s exhibition and educational program will benefit from this exceptionally generous gift,” said gallery director Roger Hankins. “Since the gallery’s founding, the Cantors have championed our collection and programming. Now, again with their considerable and generous support, we’re moving to another stage. These funds will provide dedicated resources to build on the success we have achieved over the past two decades.”

Said Iris Cantor: “The College of the Holy Cross has been dear to our hearts for many years. The College has shown a great commitment to the teaching and preservation of fine arts, and it is an honor for me to support their wonderful work.”

“We are honored by our longstanding relationship with the Cantor Foundation,” said Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president of the College. “This latest gift is a recognition of the exceptional work Roger Hankins and others have done to build the reputation of the Cantor Gallery and the quality of its exhibitions and related activities, and will help us continue to increase the effectiveness of the gallery as an educational resource to the College and the wider community.”

Prominently located at the main entrance of O’Kane Hall, the Cantor Gallery operates both as a venue for a changing series of historical and contemporary public exhibitions, as well as a vital resource for Holy Cross faculty and students, linking exhibitions to the broader liberal arts curriculum.

Hankins said the funds will double the gallery’s endowment, enabling the College to establish a new administrative framework and hire additional staff. With such resources, the gallery will improve all aspects of its program — from the quality and reach of its exhibitions to the care and conservation of a collection consisting of more than 400 historical and contemporary objects.

Specifically, the gallery will be able to undertake new curatorial projects, including scholarly publications and multimedia programs, he said. The funds will also support its expanded program of exhibitions, which now includes the summer months when the College is not in session.

“The Cantor Art Gallery has served as a gathering place for students, faculty, and staff as well for artists and community members,” said Hankins. “One important aspect of what we do at the gallery is to develop exhibitions that reflect academic scholarship and that focus on visual culture from a broad cultural context.”

The current exhibition at the Cantor Art Gallery is a prime example of this collaboration with faculty and integration with liberal arts teaching. The Spiritual Landscapes of Adrienne Farb 1980 – 2006 (on exhibit through Dec. 16) consists of 29 abstract paintings. One of the exhibition’s curators is Joanna E. Ziegler, professor of visual arts at Holy Cross. In addition to a symposium on abstract art moderated by both Ziegler and associate professor of philosophy Christopher A. Dustin which attracted scholars and critics from across the country, five Holy Cross professors from various disciplines will host an interdisciplinary discussion on the exhibit on Nov. 14.

Announcement of the Cantor Foundation gift comes on the heels of the completion of the College’s successful Lift High the Cross campaign, which raised a record $216.3 million.

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The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation (www.cantorfoundation.org) was established in 1978 to promote and encourage the recognition and appreciation of excellence in the arts; to enhance cultural life internationally through the support of art exhibitions, scholarship, and the endowment of galleries at major museums; and to support biomedical research and healthcare for women.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Ryder, Director of Public Affairs
508-793-2419
eryder@holycross.edu

WORCESTER, Mass. – Organist James David Christie will perform the third of eight concerts commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of the great 17th-century North German organist-composer Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707). As part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artists Series, “The Buxtehude Tercentenary at Holy Cross” is being performed on the late 17th-century North German inspired Taylor & Boody organ throughout the 2006-2007 concert season.

The concert, free and open to the public, will be on Nov. 12 at 3 p.m. in the College’s Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel. The chapel is handicapped accessible.

Christie is the distinguished artist in residence and College organist at Holy Cross. In addition, he serves as organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was the first American to ever win a first prize at the Bruges (Belgium) International Organ Competition and was the first person in the history of the competition to ever win both the Prize of the Jury and the Prize of the Audience. Professor Christie has served on more international organ competition juries than any American organist. He has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia giving concerts, master classes and seminars at major music festivals. He has recorded for 12 different labels and is heard regularly on radio broadcasts in the United States, Canada and Europe.

The program follows:

Praeludium in d, BuxWV 140

Canzonetta in G, BuxWV 171
Nun bitten wir, den Heiligen Geist, BuxWV 208
Nun bitten wir, den Heiligen Geist, BuxWV 209

Praeludium in D, BuxWV 139

Fuga in G, BuxWV 175
Toccata in G, BuxWV 165

Auf meinen lieben Gott, BuxWV 179
[Allemande]
Sarabande
Courante
Gigue

Te Deum laudamus, BuxWV 218
[Praeludium]
Versus I: Te Deum laudamus
Secundus versus – Auf 2 Clavier: Pleni sunt coeli et terra
[Versus III]: Te martyrum à 2 Clav. è Ped.
[Versus IV]: Tu devicto [mortis aeculo] cum 3 subjectis