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The Second Year Orientation (2YO) program will host a Dessert & Academic Extravaganza for sophomores from 7 – 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7 in the Hart Center. The event will begin with a series of short talks addressing the specific needs of second year students. Later in the evening students will have the opportunity to speak with representatives of various academic departments and programs, while enjoying a variety of desserts.

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. As many opportunities to participate in programs that complement and supplement major areas of studies become available to students in their junior and senior year, 2YO reintroduces students to programs and departments like Study Abroad, semester away, summer internships, community service, prestigious fellowship opportunities, graduate studies and career planning so that they can prepare an integrated, purposeful program of study.

The Dessert & Academic Extravaganza will encourage students to think carefully about the important academic choices they will have to make during their second year. It will familiarize students with resources to help them meet their goals and will challenge them to begin to discern who they are and who (not what) they want to become.

Speakers for the event include Rev. Brian Linnane, S.J., Class of 2007 Dean; Neal Lipsitz, director of the Counseling Center; Rosemary Carbine, professor of religious studies; Christina Chen, director of Academic Services & Learning Resources; and John Winters, director of Career Planning.

The Extravaganza will feature over 50 resources for students. In addition, there will be five dessert stations including cookies and brownies, kettle corn, ice cream and snack bars.

On Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2YO will welcome renowned anthropologist and author Mary Catherine Bateson. Bateson will address second year students in a lecture, titled “Continuity and Change: Visions for the Class of 2007,” from 7:30 – 9 p.m. in the Ballroom. After her talk, she will sign copies of her book Peripheral Visions – a collection of essays which sophomores read over the summer.

The Modern Languages and Literatures department presents the Fall 2004 French Film Series. Films will be shown in French with English subtitles on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in Stein 102. This series is organized by Professor Laurence Enjolras.

“Presque rien” – (“Come Undone”)
September 7
2000 98 mn.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz,
with Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau
While vacationing at the beach in a sleepy, picturesque seaside resort with his depressed mother, nosy aunt and clingy sister, 18-year-old Mathieu meets local teen Cédric. Their initial friendship develops into a bond which grows stronger and stronger until it reaches a bittersweet conclusion. A coming-of-age story with melancholic undertones played with great sensitivity by the two lead actors, “Presque rien” beautifully captures the difficulties of juggling first love, family expectations and the hardship of life.

“Pièces d’identités”- (“Identity Pieces”)
September 21
1998 93 mn.
Director: Mweze Ngangura
with Gérard Essomba Many, Dominique Mesa, Jean-Louis Daulne
Ngangura brings us a modern fairy tale set in the vibrant African emigré demi-monde of today’s Europe. A venerable but naïve King, Mani Kongo, comes from Congo to Europe in search of his long-lost daughter whom he sent there to study medicine. As soon as he gets to Brussels, Europeans begin to victimize him until he is penniless, homeless and forced to pawn his royal regalia. His beautiful daughter has been victimized by a flashy-dressing pimp and is now forced to work as an “exotic dancer.” Father and daughter are rescued by a mulatto cab-driver, who under the name “Savior of Humanity” holds up white bars like an African Robin Hood. “Pièces d’identités” raises some of the most troubling issue of identity facing all Africans in the ever-widening diaspora.

“Colonel Chabert”
October 5
1992 111mn.
Director: Yves Angelo
with Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini
Each day, the same man shows up at a lawyer’s office, disheveled and odd looking, asserting that he is the famous war hero Colonel Chabert. Chabert was assumed dead 10 years ago but this poor visitor insists he is him and he has survived behind enemy lines for those horrible years. After much insistence, the lawyer agrees to investigate his story. The consequences forever alter the life of the lawyer, the man and the wife of the supposedly dead Colonel Chabert. Based on the novel by Balzac.

“L’auberge espagnole” – (“The Spanish Apartment”)
October 19
2003 122 mn.
Director: Cédric Klapisch
with Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Cécile de France
Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend Martine. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets a hilarious, eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh…and party!

“Madame Bovary”
November 2
1991 130 mn.
Director: Claude Chabrol
with Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
Set in 19-century France, Emma Bovary tells the story of the romantic daughter of a country squire possessed by a burning hunger for life and love, and a passion that can never be fulfilled. Feeling trapped in her loveless and dull marriage, Emma indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of skocking affairs which lead to her ultimate destruction. Award-winning actress Isabelle Huppert gives a superb performance as the beautiful Emma. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, director Claude Chabrol has created a visually-stunning, brilliantly-acted masterpiece from the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert.

“Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain” – (“Amélie”)
November 16
2001 122 mn.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
with Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Claire Maurier
Amélie, a painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris café, makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better. From then on, Amélie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness in the most delightfully unexpected ways. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others? Winner of numerous awards (Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Art Direction), this magical comedy met overwhelming international acclaim.

“Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite” – (“God is Great and I Am Not”)
November 30
2001 95 mn.
Director: Pascale Bailly
with Audrey Tautou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu
Things can only improve for Michèle and François after their one-night stand ends with her suicide attempt. The aspiring “top model” turns to religion to find meaning in her life. When she learns that François is Jewish, she becomes obsessed with Judaism, but her attempts to convert confound the non-practicing François and his family. This charmingly unorthodox romantic comedy is as unpredictable as love itself.

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# Modern Languages and Literatures Department

The President’s Office and Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture present 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 historic moment and its connection to broader Jesuit educational traditions. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aim to further explore the principles of today’s Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

Educational systems, now, as in previous times, seek their places in changing societies even as they strive to articulate lasting values. Each presentation will focus on specific challenges confronting the Jesuits and on their adaptation and/or resistance, especially as articulated in educational reforms. These historic encounters and successive reshaping of Jesuit educational systems may shed light on our current efforts to address issues fundamental to contemporary learning.

All talks are open to the public and will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library.

Thursday, September 30
Ignatius of Loyola: The Man and His Time
Presenter: Rev. John O’Malley, S.J., Distinguished Professor of Church History, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Respondents: Francisco Gago-Jover (Modern Languages: Spanish) and Susan Amatangelo (Modern Languages: Italian)
Moderator: Mary Lee Ledbetter (Biology)

Thursday, October 21
Jesuits in Asia
Presenter: Rev. Nicolas Standaert, S.J., Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium
Respondents: Leila Philip (English) and Rev. Stephen Chow, S.J., Harvard University
Moderator: Thomas Gottschang (Economics)

Wednesday, December 1
European Origins of Jesuit Education
Presenters: Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., (History) and Rev. William Stempsey, S.J., (Philosophy)
Respondents: Donald Brand (Political Science) and Nancy Andrews (Classics)
Moderator: James Kee (English)

Thursday, February 17
Jesuits in the New World – North and South America
Presenters: Gauvin Bailey, Associate Professor of Art History, Clark University; and Rev. Jacques Monet, S.J., Director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies
Respondents: Maria Rodrigues (Political Science) and Ambroise Kom (Modern Languages: French)
Moderator: Vickie Langhor (Political Science)

Wednesday, March 16
Jesuit Education in the United States: Holy Cross through the 1940s
Presenter: Kathleen Mahoney, President, Humanitas Foundation
Respondents: Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., (History) and Joanne Pierce (Religious Studies)
Moderator: Theresa McBride (History)

Thursday, April 14
Moral Reflection in Jesuit Education and Scholarship
Presenter: Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., President
Respondents: Suzanne Kirschner (Psychology) and Sahar Bazzaz (History)
Moderator: Thomas Lawler, (English, emeritus)

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Holy Cross Presidential Colloquia to Examine Jesuits in the New World

Gauvin Bailey, professor of art history at Clark University, and Jacques Monet, S.J., director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies, will give a lecture titled “Jesuits in the New World – North and South America” on Feb. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. Maria Rodrigues, of the political science department, and Ambroise Kim, Eleanor Howard O’Leary Chair in Francophone Studies, will serve as respondents. Vickie Langohr, of the political science department, will be the moderator. For additional information on the talk, which is free and open to the public, please contact Pat Hinchliffe at 508-793-3869.

Professor Bailey specializes in Jesuit art patronage and in the interaction of cultures that took place after Columbus’ and Vasco da Gama’s “discovery” of America and Asia (1492; 1498). Dr. Bailey’s book, Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America (1999) won the Bainton Prize in Art History in 2000. His 2003 book, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610, was the result of a 2000-01 Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. His most recent book, The Art of Colonial Latin America (Art and Ideas) was released Feb. 1.

Monet, S.J. is a prominent historian who specializes in Canadian and Canadian church history. A former president of Regis College at the University of Toronto, he has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. He has been director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies since 1988.

This presentation is part four of the “Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures,” a year-long series of presentations and discussions sponsored by the President’s Office and Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. 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 aim to further explore the principles of today’s Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

# Second Presentation in Presidential Colloquia to Explore “Jesuits in Asia”
Rev. Nicolas Standaert, S.J., of Belgium, to Give Keynote Address
Rev. Nicolas Standaert, S.J., Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium, will give a lecture, titled “Jesuits in Asia,” on Thursday, October 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. Leila Philip, Holy Cross English professor, and Rev. Stephen Chow, S.J., of Harvard University, will serve as respondents. Thomas Gottschang, Holy Cross economics professor, will be the moderator. For additional information on the talk, which is free and open to the public, please contact Pat Hinchliffe at 508-793-3869.

Fr. Standaert is a well-known scholar on 17th-century cultural and intellectual exchange between China and the Western World. He is the author of several books that explore Christianity in China, including the Bibliography of the Jesuit Mission in China (1991), as well as more than 60 articles in national and international journals. Most recently, he edited the Handbook of Christianity in China: Volume One 635 – 1800, in 2001.

Fr. Standaert’s presentation is part two 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 aim to further explore the principles of today’s Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

# Presidential Colloquia to Examine European Origins of Jesuit Education
Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., of the history department, and Rev. William Stempsey, S.J., of the philosophy department, will give a lecture, titled “European Origins of Jesuit Education,” on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross.  Donald Brand, of the political science department, and Nancy Andrews, of the classics department, will serve as respondents.  James Kee, of the English department will be the moderator. For additional information on the talk, which is free and open to the public, please contact Pat Hinchliffe at 508-793-3869.

Fr. Worcester is a specialist in the religious and cultural history of early modern France and Italy.  He is the author of several journal articles and a book, Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997). His current research on Jesuit history includes an article, “A Defensive Discourse:  Jesuits on Disease in Seventeenth-Century New France,” forthcoming in French Colonial History (2005).  A member of the faculty since 1994, he recently accepted a contract from Cambridge University Press to edit The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits, a collection of essays scheduled for publication in 2007.  Fr. Worcester is one of four curators of Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, an exhibition opening in April 2005 at the Worcester Art Museum.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

Fr. Stempsey has published on the philosophy of medicine, medical education, health and disease, the relation of contemporary philosophy of science to bioethics, the ethics of end-of-life decisions, and the ethics of organ transplantation.  He is the author of Disease and Diagnosis: Value-Dependent Realism (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) and editor of Elisha Bartlett’s Philosophy of Medicine (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming).  Fr. Stempsey has organized faculty discussions on Jesuit education and a colloquium on the Ratio Studiorum (the Jesuit philosophy of education) in conjunction with the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related College.  In fall 2004, he edited the first issue of a new journal, Fundamental Questions: A Journal of the Liberal Arts, titled “Jesuit Education and the Ratio Studiorum.” In addition to three master’s degrees and a doctor of medicine degree, Fr. Stempsey holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University.

This presentation is part three of the “Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures,” a year-long series of presentations and discussions sponsored by the President’s Office and Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. 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 aim to further explore the principles of today’s Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.
# Presidential Colloquia Begin with Talk by Rev. John O’Malley, S.J.

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 aim 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. In 1999, Fr. O’Malley received an honorary Doctor of Ministry degree from Holy Cross at Commencement. In 2000, he was the featured speaker when Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., was inaugurated as Holy Cross President.

# Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture
# President’s Office

St. Joseph Chapel was filled to capacity on the evening of August 30, as the newest members of the student body gathered for the Fall First Year Student Convocation. The assembly marked the culmination of the Gateways Orientation experience and the threshold of full matriculation into the College Community.

As students found their seats in the chapel, they were asked to reflect on the unique gifts that each of them brings to Holy Cross, and how they plan to use their gifts to make the most of their time at the College. Each student wrote their gifts on slips of paper, which were collected in a basket at the end of the Convocation. The basket will be displayed at major Class of 2008 events during the next four years, as a reminder of the diverse qualities that each students brings to the community.

Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., Holy Cross president, addressed the Class of 2008, speaking about the important roles that discernment and reflection will continue to play in shaping how they take advantage of the many opportunities available to them at Holy Cross and beyond.

“Freedom,” he said, “is about making choices; and you have a lot of them facing you. Who will you take for your friends? How will you allocate your time? What will you do to relax? Will you use alcohol or drugs, and how much? What activities will you be involved in, and what will be your level of commitment? Whose advice will you listen to? How committed will you be to learning? Will you be faithful in carrying out all your responsibilities? What will your major be? What courses will you take? What kind of career are you interested in and how will you prepare for it? The choices you make here will help shape the person you become and the future that opens for you.”

Fenwick Scholar, Mark Ferraguto ’05,then talked to students about how the choices he made allowed him to pursue his interest in music in a most challenging, creative and meaningful way. He reflected on how the people he met at Holy Cross and the academic and social opportunities available to him helped shape his goals and aspirations. As this year’s Fenwick Scholar, one of the highest academic honors the College bestows, Ferraguto will pursue a year-long research project titled “Reading the ‘Program’ in Beethoven’s Instrumental Music.”

The convocation concluded when four members of the Class of 2008 (pictured above: Ariana DeAngelis William King, Sarah Jensen, Jason Tartaglione) and four members of the administration shared their gifts and reflections publicly. After a formal procession out of the Chapel, the first year class gathered for the President’s Banquet in Kimball Dining Hall.

As the College community prepares to commemorate the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Office of Student Affairs encourages all students, faculty, staff and their families to participate in the fourth annual Relay for Disaster Relief, a campus-wide fundraiser benefiting the Holy Cross September 11th Scholarship Fund.

This year’s relay will take place on Friday, Sept. 10 at 5:30 p.m. at the Hart Center Track. (In the event of rain, the race will take place inside at the Fieldhouse.) Participating teams will be asked to run, walk, or skip for 50 laps, keeping one member on the track at all times. Free T-shirts will be handed out to participants on a first come, first served basis. So, start getting your teams together now.

Registration packets may be picked up during the week of Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. in Hogan 109. Additional information and registration materials will also be available at the Hogan Lobby Tables from Sept. 2 -3, and Sept. 6 – 9 from 1 – 4 p.m.

The September 11th Scholarship Fund provides a Holy Cross education to financially needy surviving children of alumni/ae, firefighters, police and rescue workers killed or permanently disabled due to terrorist attacks or during the rescue activities relating to those attacks.

If you are unable to participate in the race, but would still like to help, donations will be accepted at the Office of Student Affairs (Hogan 109). Please make checks out to the College of the Holy Cross.

For additional information, or to have a registration packed mailed to you, contact DeJongh Wells at 508-793-2411.

In anticipation of the arrival of new and returning students to campus, the Student Programs and Leadership Development Office has planned a series of events to help kick off the 2004-2005 academic year. These are just the first of many campus activities and events planned for this year, so grab your friends, and get involved.

Fall Concert, Gavin DeGraw
Be sure to mark your calendars for the Welcome Weekend headliner event – CAB’s fall concert on Monday, August 30, starring singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist Gavin DeGraw, with opener by Toby Lightman. The concert, open only to Holy Cross students, will take place in the Hart Center at 9:30 p.m. (Doors open at 9 p.m.)

Additional events include:

Friday, August 27
Pre-Class Bash
Crossroads Pub, 9 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Make your own video and enjoy free food and soda.

Saturday, August 28
Move In Day

Mass of the Holy Spirit
Hart Lawn (Rain location: Hart Center), 4 p.m.

First Night Celebration
Healy Beach, 10 p.m. – 12:30 a.m.
Featuring a rock wall, bungee challenge, glass etching, spin art, photo key chains and more!
Sponsored by CAB

Sunday, August 29
Think You Know Movies? – Game Show
Hart Center 3:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Win cash prizes!
Sponsored by CAB

The Edge – Grand Opening
Crossroads Pub, 10 p.m. – 12:30 a.m.
Free soda, snacks and giveaways, including a DVD player, an MP3 player and a digital camera.
Sponsored by Student Programs and Leadership Development

Wednesday, September 1 – Saturday, September 4
Poster Sale
Hogan 320, 9 – 5 p.m.

Friday, September 3
Cheerleader Pep Rally
Kimball Quad, 7 – 8 p.m.

Friday, September 10
Relay for Disaster Relief
Hart Track (Rain location: Field House) 5:30 p.m.

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# www.gavindegraw.com

The following films will be shown at Kimball Theatre during the fall 2004 semester. All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. For additional information, please call the Kimball Theatre Box Office at 508-793-2455.

“Kill Bill Vol. 2” – Rated R.
Wed., Sept. 1: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Uma Thurman and David Carradine. Director Quentin Tarantino offers up the sequel to his epic tale of vengeance.

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” – Rated PG.
Fri., Sept. 3 and Sat., Sept. 4: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Gary Oldman. It’s Harry’s third year at Hogwarts School, and he learns that a convicted murderer has escaped Azkaban prison, and could be coming after him next.

“The Passion of the Christ” – Rated R.
Wed., Sept. 8: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jim Caviezel. Director Mel Gibson’s traditionalist view of the Passion focuses on the last 12 hours of Jesus of Nazareth’s life and his death.

“Shrek 2” – Rated PG.
Fri., Sept. 10 and Sat., Sept. 11: Showing at 7 p.m. Voices by Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz. Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find a letter inviting the newlyweds over for dinner with the inlaws – who have no idea that their daughter is now an ogre.

“Fahrenheit 9/11” – Rated R.
Wed., Sept. 15: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Michael Moore’s take on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration used the tragic event to push its agenda

“Mean Girls” – Rated PG-13.
Fri., Sept. 17 and Sat., Sept. 18: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Lindsay Lohan. What happens when a home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules of contemporary adolescence?

“Supersize Me” – Rated PG-13.
Wed., Sept. 22: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject of this documentary about the commercial food industry, rigorously eating a diet of McDonald’s fast food, three times a day for a month straight.

“Troy” – Rated R.
Fri., Sept. 24 and Sat., Sept. 25: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger. An adaptation of Homer’s great epic “The Iliad,” the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

“The Mission” – Rated PG.
Wed., Sept. 29: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. 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.

“Saved!” – Rated PG-13.
Fri., Oct. 1 (no Sat. showing): Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Macaulay Culkin and Jena Malone. A comedy set at a Baptist high school, where a girl finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her.

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” – Rated R.
Wed., Oct. 6: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. A couple undergoes a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour.

Fri., Oct. 8 and Sat., Oct. 9: No Showing.

“Coffee and Cigarettes” – Rated R.
Wed., Oct. 13: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Cate Blanchett and Steve Buscemi and two dozen other actors and friends of director Jim Jarmusch. In a series of short vignettes, we see just how absorbing the obsessions, joys and addictions of life can be.

“The Stepford Wives” – Rated PG-13.
Fri., Oct. 15 and Sat., Oct. 16: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler. What does it take to make the perfect wife? The husbands of Stepford, Conn., who’ve created a high-tech terrifying little town, seem to have the answer.

“Osama” – Rated PG-13.
Wed., Oct. 20: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Marina Golbahari. A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work, and the girl disguises herself as a man so she can help earn money for food.

“The Day After Tomorrow” – Rated PG-13.
Fri., Oct. 22 and Sat., Oct. 23: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. A climatologist’s global warning predictions come true. While trying to save the world, he also must find his son who was in New York when the city was hit by the new Ice Age.

“I’m Not Scared” – Rated R.
Wed., Oct. 27: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Guiseppe Christiano. A 10-year-old finds another boy his age kidnapped and chained in a pit, and is unsure what to do – especially when his parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget whatever he saw.

Fri., Oct. 29 and Sat., Oct. 30: No Showing.

“Napoleon Dynamite” – Rated PG-13.
Wed., Nov. 3: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jon Heder. Preston, Idaho’s most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite, and his best friend, Pedro, work to snatch the Student Body President title from a mean teen named Summer Wheatley.

“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” – PG-13.
Fri., Nov. 5 and Sat., Nov. 6: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Ben Stiller. A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain.

“Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” – Rated R.
Wed., Nov. 10: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring John Cho and Kal Penn. An investment banker and his stoner roommate/medical school candidate wander through New Jersey looking for the title hamburgers.

“Spiderman 2” – Rated PG-13.
Fri., Nov. 12 and Sat., Nov. 13: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. Peter Parker’s still struggling with his personal life, and swears he’s quitting – never to put on his Spider-Man suit again. But his sense of duty forces him to become a hero again when a brilliant scientist becomes evil Dr. Octopus.

“Before Sunset” – Rated R.
Wed., Nov. 17: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
In this sequel to “Before Sunrise,” it’s nine years later. Jesse and Celine meet in a bookstore and walk through Paris before his plane leaves, talking about their experiences, views and whether they still love each other.

“Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” – Rated PG-13.
Fri., Nov. 19 and Sat., Nov. 20: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate. Ron Burgundy is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ’70s, but then feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone.

“The Door in the Floor” – Rated R.
Wed., Dec. 1: Showings at 3 and 8 p.m. Starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. A chronicle of one pivotal summer in the lives of a famous children’s book author and his beautiful wife, whose once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy.

“The Bourne Supremacy” – Rated PG-13.
Fri., Dec. 3 and Sat., Dec. 4: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Matt Damon and Franka Potente. When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

Wed., Dec. 8: No Showing.

“The Manchurian Candidate” – Rated R.
Fri., Dec. 10 and Sat., Dec. 11: Showing at 7 p.m. Starring Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep. Is it possible that an entire army unit was kidnapped and brainwashed during the first Gulf War to believe that the current vice presidential candidate is a war hero – as part of a plot to seize the White House?

Ellen K. Gasparovic and Justin P. Parrella are this year’s co-recipients of the Mrs. Kate C. Power Medal. This prestigious award is presented to the highest-ranking student(s) in the second-year class; Gasparovic and Parrella share top ranking among the 709 students in the Class of 2006.

Funded by an anonymous bequest in 1942, the award consists of an engraved medal and a cash prize of $235.

A member of the College’s Honors Program, Gasparovic is a double major in mathematics and psychology. The recent recipient of a Rising Star Award, she was twice chosen as a Dana Scholar, an honor given to students of outstanding academic ability, strong character and leadership.

“It’s an incredible honor to receive the Mrs. Kate C. Power Medal,” said Gasparovic. “I am so thankful for having such wonderful professors and for being a part of the Holy Cross community.”

Parrella, a chemistry major, is the recent recipient of the Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry. Also a Dana Scholar, he is conducting research in polymer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, this summer.