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WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross and the Worcester Ice Cats Youth Hockey Association will offer the DEAFinitely Skate Hockey Program for deaf children over the age of four at the Holy Cross Hart Recreation Center ice rink, beginning Saturday, Oct. 16.

Registration will take place from 7 – 8 a.m., on Oct. 16 in the Hart Center. Skaters of all levels are invited. Instruction will be in American Sign Language (ASL). The cost of the program is $50. Financial assistance is available. All registered skaters will receive a free Jr. Ice Cats practice jersey.
The dates for the 2004 DEAFinitely Hockey season are as follows:

* Saturday, Oct. 16: 7 – 8 a.m.
* Saturday, Oct. 23: 9 – 10 a.m.
* Saturday, Nov. 6: 9 – 10 a.m.
* Saturday, Nov. 13: 9 – 10 a.m.
* Saturday, Nov. 20: 9 – 10 a.m.
* Saturday, Dec. 4: 9 – 10 a.m.
* Saturday, Dec. 11: 9 – 10 a.m.

WORCESTER, Mass. – William Sobczak, assistant professor of biology at the College of the Holy Cross, was recently awarded the prestigious Raymond L. Lindeman Award by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). The award, presented at the ASLO’s annual meeting in Savannah, Ga. this summer, is given annually in recognition of the outstanding paper in the aquatic sciences to a young scientist under the age of 35.

Sobczak’s paper, “Bioavailability of organic matter in a highly disturbed estuary: The role of detrital and algal resources” was the central paper from his post-doctoral research position at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. His work was funded by the CALFED San Francisco Bay-Delta Ecosystem Restoration Program, one of the largest restoration projects in the world – expected to take place over a 30 year period.

Sobczak’s research specifically examined the importance of algal and terrestrial food supplies in response to declining zooplankton and fish populations in the San Joaquin River Delta. His findings will aid the restoration’s program managers in effectively improving the health of the Bay-Delta system for its native species – which include salmon, migratory waterfowl, and a host of other plants and animals of critical importance to California.

A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2002, Sobczak has been involved locally in a number of important ecology research projects. His freshwater ecology course is one of the College’s Community-Based Learning Courses, where students combine classroom learning with field work in the local community. Through this course, Sobczak has supervised several student projects on local freshwater ecosystems, including research on the Blackstone River National Heritage Corridor and on the impact of declines in the Eastern hemlock tree population on local stream environments. This work helps scientists and managers forecast future environmental change with regard to how environmental perturbation can alter ecosystems on a regional, national, and international level.

Sobczak earned his Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University and his M.S. in zoology from Michigan State University. He completed his undergraduate training at Bucknell University, where he majored in biology and English. Sobczak is the author of numerous publications in leading academic journals, including Ecology, Ecological Applications, Biogeochemistry, and Limnology and Oceanography.

Raised in Bel Air, Md., where he attended John Carroll High School, Sobczak currently resides in Worcester.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Arun Gandhi, grandson of legendary peace fighter and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, will give a free public lecture at Holy Cross on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. Arun will speak about the influence his grandfather had in shaping his life, his personal views on nonviolence, and the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, which he founded with his wife, Sunanda, in 1991. After his lecture Arun will sign copies of his books, which will be available for purchase in the Holy Cross Bookstore. This event is sponsored by the student group I.N.D.I.A. (Individuals of All Nations Developing Indian Appreciation).

Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun grew up under discriminatory apartheid laws. As a person of Indian heritage, he suffered racial confrontations with both blacks and whites. Beatings from white South Africans for being too “black,” and from black South Africans for being too “white” filled Arun with anger and hatred. Fearing more violence, his parents sent him to stay with his grandfather in India when he was 12 years old. His time in India proved both dangerous and exciting, as the country was in the midst of a revolution to gain independence from British rule. However, the 18-month stay transformed Arun’s life and shaped the foundation of his life’s work as a powerful advocate for nonviolence.

After leading several successful projects for social and economic reform in India, Arun came to the United States where he founded the Institute he runs with his wife. Dedicated to fostering an understanding of nonviolence, and to putting that philosophy to practical use, the organization sponsors workshops, lectures and community outreach programs.

A former journalist at The Times of India, where he worked for 30 years, Arun is the author of several books, including A Patch of White, about life in South Africa, M.K. Gandhi’s Wit & Wisdom, and most recently The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi, with his wife.

WORCESTER, Mass. – For the second consecutive year, an alumnus of the College of the Holy Cross has joined the exclusive ranks of recipients of a $500,000 award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in recognition of their work and contribution to society.

Novelist Edward P. Jones ’72, of Washington, D.C., today was named one of 23 new MacArthur Fellows. James J. Collins ’87, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, and Osvaldo Golijov, associate professor of music at Holy Cross, were named MacArthur Fellows last year.

Jones is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World (2003) and an acclaimed collection of short stories Lost in the City (1992). In making the announcement, the foundation stated: “Edward P. Jones is a fiction writer who renders in story a mysterious incongruity of the human experience – how faith, dignity, and love often survive, and sometimes thrive, in the face of systemic adversity…. [He] works painstakingly to compose artful, morally complicated fiction that challenges, provokes, and enriches.”

A sprawling saga, The Known World examines the antebellum world of free blacks who owned black slaves. Jones’ short story collection deals with African American working class and underclass experiences in mid-20th century, inner-city Washington, D.C.  His fiction has also appeared in such publications as Essence, Ploughshares, Callaloo, and The New Yorker. Jones received an MFA from the University of Virginia. He worked for nearly 20 years at Tax Notes, a trade publication, before being laid off in 2002 and working full time on his novel.

In a recent article in Holy Cross Magazine, Jones talked about growing up in poverty in Washington, and the experience of coming to Holy Cross, at the urging of a young Jesuit who was working in his neighborhood.

He was one of about two dozen African American students in the Class of ’72, was painfully shy, and quickly switched from his intended math major after falling far behind in his work. In the same article, Holy Cross English Professor Maurice Geracht (who taught Jones in the College’s inaugural creative writing program, and whom Jones credits with being the first to encourage him as writer) said of The Known World: “It’s an unbelievable book… it’s a wonderful humane kind of work. It’s a real meditation on what it is to be human.”

As the foundation states, MacArthur fellows are “selected for their originality, creativity, and the potential to do more in the future. Candidates are nominated, evaluated, and selected through a rigorous and confidential process. No one may apply for the awards, nor are any interviews conducted.” There are no restrictions on how recipients use the funds, which will be distributed over the next five years.

The inaugural class of MacArthur Fellows was named in 1981. Including this year’s Fellows, 682 people, ranging in age from 18 to 82, have been named MacArthur Fellows since the inception of the program.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Sir John Polkinghorne, one of the world’s greatest living writers and thinkers on religion and science and winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, will deliver two public talks at the College of the Holy Cross during a rare speaking trip to the United States. The first lecture, titled “Science and the Soul” will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6. The second, titled “Ethical Problems in Human Genetics,” will be at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7. Both talks will be held in the Rehm Library in Smith Hall.

Polkinghorne will spend several days at Holy Cross, arriving on Tuesday, October 5 and leaving on Friday, October 8. In addition to his two public lectures, he will meet informally with students and faculty in classrooms.

A world-class physicist turned priest, Polkinghorne began his scientific career as a student at Trinity College Cambridge, where he studied under Nobel-Prize winning physicist Paul Dirac. After earning his Ph.D. in 1955, Polkinghorne taught mathematical physics at Edinburgh, and subsequently returned to Cambridge where he held the prestigious post of Professor of Mathematical Physics. In 1979, he resigned his professorship to train for the Anglican Priesthood, a move that bewildered many of his scientist colleagues.

A Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral and fellow of the Royal Society and of Queen’s College, Cambridge, where he served as president from 1989 – 1996, Polkinghorne was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for distinguished service to science, religion, learning and medical ethics. In 2002, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, the world’s largest and best-known annual monetary religion prize. Founded by philanthropist Sir John Templeton in 1972, the award is worth about $1 million.

Polkinghorne has published a series of books exploring the interconnectedness of religion and science. His best known works include The Way the World Is (1983), The Faith of a Physicist (1984), and Belief in God in an Age of Science (1998).

Polkinghorne has served as chair on a number of scientific and religious organizations, including the Science, Medicine and Technology Committee of the Church of England’s Board of Social Responsibility, the publications committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), the joint working party on Cloning of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. He has also served on the General Synod and the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, and on the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Faculty experts in a wide range of political and related disciplines from the College of the Holy Cross are available to offer distinctive perspectives on some of the hot-button political issues expected during the Republican National Convention and throughout the election season. Among them:

Donald Brand, associate professor/chair, political science
508-793-3402 (preferred)
dbrand@holycross.edu
Brand specializes in the study of the presidency and American politics. He has provided expert commentary to the media on a number of politically controversial issues, including civil liberties and the Patriot Act. Brand is the author of Corporatism and the Rule of Law: A Study of the National Recovery Administration (Cornell University Press, 1988), and numerous articles in journals such as Political Science Quarterly and Political Science Reviewer. He serves as the faculty advisor to the Holy Cross College Republicans.

Caren Dubnoff, associate professor, political science
508-793-2593 (office), 617-965-0395 (home/preferred)
cdubnoff@holycross.edu
Dubnoff specializes in American government, the presidency, constitutional law, and politics. She has written extensively on a variety of politically-charged legal subjects including free speech, and therefore can address issues related to the expected protests at the Republican National Convention. During the closely contested 2000 presidential election, Dubnoff provided commentary for the Associated Press on increased student interest in the role of the courts in elections.

Ericka Fisher, assistant professor, education
508-793-3732 (office)
efisher@holycross.edu
Fisher, whose areas of expertise include racial and economic inequality in American education, can provide special commentary on the role these issues will play in the upcoming election.

Thomas Gottschang, associate professor, economics
508-793-2678 (office)
tgottsch@holycross.edu
Gottschang is an expert in the economies and politics of China and Vietnam. He is co-author, with Diana Lary, of Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria (University of Michigan, 2000). In addition, he is a Vietnam veteran and can comment on issues related to the focus on John Kerry’s actions during and after the Vietnam War.

Jerry Lembcke, associate professor, sociology
508-793-3050 (office)
jlembcke@holycross.edu
A nationally recognized expert on the Vietnam War and Vietnam veterans, Lembcke’s recent research and writing focus on the controversies surrounding John Kerry’s war record. The author of several books including The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (NYU Press, 1998) and CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam’s Last Great Myth (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003), Lembcke has wide-ranging media experience. He has been interviewed by USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and many other newspapers, radio and television stations.

Thomas Martin, professor/chair, Classics
508-793-2550 (office)
tmartin@holycross.edu (preferred)
Martin specializes in the ancient history of democracy, its roots in Athens, and how it compares with modern American democracy. Author of Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale University Press, 2002), he has served as an expert commentator in several publications and as a consultant to numerous television programs. Most recently, he appeared on the August 16, 2004 edition of The Today Show, where he provided background on the ancient Olympic games.

David O’Brien, Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, history
508-793-2775 (office), 508-829-9759 (home)
dobrien@holycross.edu
O’Brien specializes in Catholic social and political thought, the history of American Catholicism, and religion and politics. O’Brien frequently provides expert commentary for the media; he has been quoted in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Catholic Reporter, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Associated Press, and has appeared on NPR and WCVB-TV (The Boston Channel). Most recently, his op-ed on declining Christian support for the Democrats, was published in The Boston Globe on June 14.

Edward O’Donnell, associate professor, history
508-793-3730 (office), 508-826-1572 (evening)
eodonnel@holycross.edu
O’Donnell has expertise in the history of presidential elections and campaigns, and has published articles on John F. Kennedy’s campaign, and the 1884 and 1928 presidential elections. He can also provide insight on New York City’s political history; his forthcoming book Talisman of a Lost Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (Columbia University Press, 2005) details the most famous election in New York City history — the 1886 mayoral election. O’Donnell has extensive media experience and is a former Morning Edition commentator for NPR member station WNYC.

David Schaefer, professor, political science
508-793-2252 (office), 508-755-6750 (home)
dschaefe@holycross.edu
Schaefer, whose scholarly research and analysis focuses on American political thought, can provide expert commentary on a multitude of issues related to the current presidential campaign. He has published essays on judicial activism, church-state issues, public employee unions (with reference to the police picketing in Boston), government spending, and campaign finance reform in journals including The American Enterprise and National Review Online. During the Democratic National Convention, National Public Radio’s Seattle affiliate, KUOW, called upon Schaefer for expert commentary on media biases in covering politics.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Korea’s leading organist Tong-Soon Kwak will perform a concert on Sunday, Oct. 24 at 3 p.m. in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross. As part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artists Series, Kwak will perform the works of Weckmann, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, C. P. E. Bach and J. S. Bach. The concert is free and open to the public. St. Joseph Chapel is handicap accessible.

Tong-Soon Kwak is professor of organ and chair of the church music department at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. She has served on many international organ competition juries and has performed extensively around the world. Kwak received her doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Michigan.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The award-winning Borromeo String Quartet will perform at the College of the Holy Cross on Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Brooks Concert Hall. The group will perform the complete string quartets of Bartok. Their concert is free and open to the public. For additional information, please contact the music department events line at 508-793-3528.

Established as one of the most important string quartets performing today, the Borromeo String Quartet includes Nicholas Kitchen and William Fedkenheuer on violin, Mai Motobuchi on violo and Yeesun Kim on cello. Hailed by the New York Times as “outstanding” and by the Boston Globe as “simply the best there is,” the Quartet will perform over 100 concerts this season in venues around the world

Based in Boston, where they serve on the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music, the Quartet has performed in many of the world’s foremost concert halls, including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Dai-Ichi Semei, Suntory, and Casals Halls in Tokyo. In addition, they have participated in many of the most prestigious international chamber music festivals including the Prague Spring Festival, the Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Orlando Festival in The Netherlands, and Norway’s Stavanger Festival.

The Quartet maintains a strong connection to several contemporary composers including Osvaldo Golijov, associate professor of music at Holy Cross and world renowned composer, whose music they have performed at such venues as the Fleet Celebrity Series in Boston, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Tanglewood, and Ravinia. The Quartet also works frequently with composers John Cage, John Harbison, Steve Mackey, Thomas Ades, Leon Kirchner, Gunther Schuller, and Gyorgy Ligeti.

Gramophone Magazine hailed the “great clarity and beauty” and “ravishing fury” of the Quartet’s most recent commercial recording project. Their first recording, the String Quartet and String Duo of Maurice Ravel, was honored with the Chamber Music America/WQXR Award for Recording Excellence in 2001. The Quartet has continued to win international recognition, with recent awards including Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 1998, and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award in 2001.

For the 98-99 season, the Quartet served as the Ensemble-in-Residence for National Public Radio’s “Performance Today,” and is frequently heard on NPR. They work extensively with WGBH in Boston, WNYC in New York, NHK Radio & Television in Japan and KBS Radio and Television in Korea.

The Quartet takes its name from an area of north Italy where it played its first concerts together. Additional information may be found on their Web site at www.borromeoquartet.org.

WORCESTER, Mass. – In celebration of the vibrant spiritual and intellectual Jesuit heritage of Holy Cross, the College has planned a week of events dedicated to commemorating its rich history. During the celebration of Jesuit Heritage Week, all members of local community are invited to gather at the following events, which are free and open to the public. For additional information contact the Chaplains’ Office at 508-793-2448.

Sunday, Sept. 26

* 7 p.m. – Opening Mass with celebrant Rev. Thomas Regan, S.J., Provincial, New England Province of the Society of Jesus. (Mary Chapel)
* 8 p.m. – Reception with Jesuit Community. (Chapel Plaza: Rain location – Mary Chapel)

Monday, Sept. 27 (Anniversary of the Approval of the Society of Jesus)

* 8 a.m. Morning Prayer with reflection offered by Susan Amatangelo, associate professor of Italian. (Rehm Library)
* 12 p.m. – Presentation on Ignatian Spirituality by Rev. Jim Hayes, S.J., Rector of the Jesuit Community at Holy Cross. (Lower Reading Room, Dinand Library)
* 12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
* 3 p.m. – Walking tour of Campus led by Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., who will provide historical highlights of the Jesuit presence at Holy Cross. (Begins at the Hogan Campus Center third floor lobby.)
* 10 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)

Tuesday, Sept. 28

* 8 a.m. – Morning Prayer with reflection offered by Daniel Frost, assistant professor of Spanish. (Rehm Library)
* 12 p.m. – Presentation on Jesuits in the Sciences by Rev. Jim Skehan, S.J., director emeritus, Weston Observatory. (Lower Reading Room, Library)
* 12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
* 10 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)

Wednesday, Sept. 29

* 8 a.m. – Morning Prayer with reflection offered by Pamela Reponen, secretary, Public Affairs (Rehm Library)
* 12 p.m. Panel Discussion: Jesuits and Their Lay Collaborators with Rosemary Carbine assistant professor of religious studies; Kate Haser, executive director of JVC East; and Marybeth Kearns-Barrett, associate Chaplain and director of Service and Social Justice Programs. (Lower Reading Room, Library)
* 12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
* 3 p.m. – Film: “The Mission” Starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. (Kimball Theatre)
* 8 p.m. – Film: “The Mission” Starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. (Kimball Theatre)
* 10 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)

Thursday, Sept. 30

* 8 a.m. – Morning Prayer with reflection offered by Robert Baumann, assistant professor of economics. (Rehm Library)
* 12 p.m. – Presentation: Working for Social Justice, “Using Ignatian Spirituality” by Rev. Rick Malloy, S.J., Chaplain and professor of sociology, St. Joseph University. (Lower Reading Room, Library.)
* 12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
* 4 p.m. – Lecture on the History of the Jesuits by Rev. John O’Malley, S.J., professor at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. (Rehm Library)
* 10 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)

Friday, Oct. 1

* 8 a.m. – Morning Prayer with reflection offered by David Lizotte, director, Teacher Education Program. (Rehm Library)
* 12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
* 8 p.m. – First Friday Mass (McCooey Chapel)

WORCESTER, Mass. – Boston’s hip hop radio station, JAM’N 94.5, will bring their Campus Invasion “Rock the Vote” Tour to Holy Cross on Wednesday, Sept. 15. The JAM’N Street Team will take over the first floor of the Hogan Campus Center from 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. in an effort to educate students on the issues and encourage voter registration. Their visit to the College will feature music and fun giveaways, including T-shirts, CDs, airline tickets from Jet Blue, and a $500 Ebay shopping spree. The Street Team will also be registering students to vote on site.

The JAM’N 94.5 Campus Invasion Tour is a nonpartisan voter registration initiative that aims to generate political interest among college students and register as many young voters as possible. They will visit over 30 colleges in Massachusetts over the next month.

In conjunction with the Campus Invasion Tour, and as part of a nationwide effort to educate students on the importance of the youth vote, Holy Cross student representatives have arranged a host of additional opportunities to make sure students get their voices heard in the next Presidential election.

The Student Government Association (SGA), with the help of the College Republicans and College Democrats, has set up an Election 2004 Web site (www.holycross.edu/departments/dos/vote/) that includes voter information and links to online registration. Through the College’s Blackboard system, students can log onto a discussion board to debate and discuss the issues that matter to them. The site also contains a weekly poll, where students answer election-related questions and check back the following week to see how the rest of the student body responded.

In addition, throughout the next few weeks, there will be tables set up in the Hogan Campus Center with the forms necessary to establish Worcester residency or file for absentee ballots. Qualified individuals will be available to help students complete the forms, in order to make the voting process as simple as possible.

WORCESTER, Mass. – John Peradotto, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will give a talk, titled “The Greeks Revolutionize the Alphabet” on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. in room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Peradotto’s lecture will examine the non-alphabetic system used by the ancient Greeks and their subsequent adaptation of the Phoenician alphabet. He will focus in particular on how the adaptation addressed problems associated with its Phoenician predecessor and how the new alphabet’s superior analysis of the spoken language put reading skill within anyone’s reach, thus laying the groundwork for democracy. He will also address the fact that the New Testament was written not in Hebrew, but in the Greek alphabet, which was a major factor in the speed and relative ease with which Christianity spread.

The Andrew V. Raymond Chair of Classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1984 – 99, Peradotto most recently served as Benedict Visiting Distinguished Professor at Carleton College in 2003. He is the author of Classical Mythology: An Annotated Bibliographical Survey (1973) and Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey (1990), as well as numerous articles and reviews on Greek myth, epic and tragedy. Peradotto has delivered over 100 invited lectures on these and other topics at more than 50 universities and colleges and at meetings of professional associations.

Peradotto co-founded the classical journal Arethusa and served as its editor-in-chief from 1975 – 1995. In 1990 he was elected President of the American Philological Association.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Mary Catherine Bateson, noted anthropologist, linguist and best selling author, will give a lecture to second-year students at the College of the Holy Cross on Wednesday, Sept. 22 from 7:30 – 9 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. Her talk, “Continuity and Change: Visions for the Holy Cross Class of 2007,” is part three of a new orientation program designed specifically for sophomores. After Bateson’s talk, she will sign copies of her books, including Peripheral Visions – a collection of essays which sophomores read over the summer.

In addition to Peripheral Visions, Bateson has published several other well known books, including With a Daughter’s Eye, a memoir of her parents Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; Composing a Life, a collection of biographies on Bateson and her close friends; and a new book, Willing to Learn.

Peripheral Visions, described by the Los Angeles Times as “A way to suck the most of out of life, to broaden one’s vision and experience, to raise children better equipped to live in a changing world,” was chosen because of its connection to the mission of the Second Year Orientation (2YO) program.

2YO encourages students to look beyond the gates of Holy Cross and reflect carefully on the path of their academic careers so that they can make the most of their time at the College. Many opportunities to participate in programs that complement and supplement major areas of studies become available to students in their junior and senior year, such as Study Abroad, semester away, summer internships, community service, prestigious fellowship opportunities, graduate studies and career planning. 2YO challenges students to give thoughtful consideration to designing an integrated, purposeful program of study.

A believer in the power of lifelong learning, Bateson will speak on Sept. 22 about the relationships between continuity and change. She will look in particular at the dual role of continuity and change in evolution and the way in which learning must rely on both.

Bateson is scholar in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City. Until recently, she had been the Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University, and is now Professor Emerita. She lectures frequently throughout the United States and internationally.

This event is funded by a generous grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. John O’Malley, S.J., Distinguished Professor of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, will give a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. His talk, “Ignatius of Loyola: The Man and His Time,” which is free and open to the public, will address the education of St. Ignatius and the influences that shaped his thinking on education as ministry.

Fr. O’Malley’s talk is part of the “Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures,” a year-long series of presentations and discussions. Each event will focus on a particular moment in Jesuit history and its connection to Jesuit educational aims today. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aims to further explore the principles of today’s Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions. Holy Cross faculty members Francisco Gago-Jover, associate professor of Spanish, and Susan Amatangelo, associate professor of Italian, will serve as respondents. Mary Lee Ledbetter, professor of biology, will serve as the moderator.

Fr. O’Malley, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has published several works on topics including Jesuit history, Renaissance humanism, and the Second Vatican Council. His book The First Jesuits (1993), which has been translated into several languages, was awarded many prizes including the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History and the American Society of Church History’s Philip Schaff Prize for Religious History.

Past president of the American Catholic Historical Association and of the Renaissance Society of America, he has taught at Boston College, the University of Michigan, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University and Oxford University. Fr. O’Malley was the featured speaker when Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., was inaugurated as Holy Cross President in 2000.

WORCESTER, Mass. – As part of the College of the Holy Cross Visiting Writers Lecture Series, the following writers will give readings during the 2004 fall semester. All readings are free and open to the public. This series is sponsored by the College’s Creative Writing Program.

Tuesday, September 28
Steven Cramer
7:30 p.m., Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library

Steven Cramer is the author of four poetry collections: The Eye That Desires to Look Upward (1987); The World Book (1992); Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (l997) and the recently released Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande, 2004). His poems and criticism have appeared in numerous literary journals, including the Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review and Poetry. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, he has taught literature and writing at Bennington College, Boston University, Tufts, and M.I.T. He currently directs the low-residency program in creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Thursday, October 28
Edward Hirsch
8 p.m., Rehm Library, Smith Hall

Edward Hirsch has published six collections of poetry including For the Sleepwalkers (1981); Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Night Parade (1989); Earthly Measures (l994); On Love (l998) and Lay Back the Darkness (2003). He has also written three prose books, including How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, a national best seller, and The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration. He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for 17 years, he is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Thursday, November 11
Michael Collier
7:30 p.m., Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library

Michael Collier is the author of four poetry collections: The Clasp and Other Poems (l986); The Folded Heart (l989); The Neighbor (l995); and The Ledge (2000), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In addition, he has edited three anthologies, The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of Contemporary American Poetry; the New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. Recipient of Pushcart Prizes, a Thomas J. Watson traveling fellowship, two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Discovery/The Nation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Collier teaches at the University of Maryland and is Poet Laureate of Maryland. Since l995, he has also served as the director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Tuesday, November 30
Eamon Grennan
7:30 p.m., Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library

Eamon Grennan, a Dublin native who has lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years, is the author of Wildly for Days (1983); What Light There Is (1987); As If It Matters (1992); So It Goes (1995); Relations: New and Selected Poems (1998); Selected and New Poems (2000) and Still Life With Waterfall (2002), which was the winner of the Lenore Marshall Award. His Leopardi: Selected Poems won the PEN Award for poetry in translation. Grennan has also published a collection of critical essays, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century. In addition to receiving a number of Pushcart Prizes, he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He recently retired from Vassar College where he was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English.