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WORCESTER, Mass. – There will be a “Life Pathways of Women in Psychology Panel” on Wednesday, March 28, at 3:30 p.m. in Rooms 403 and 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. Three women with careers in psychology will speak on their career paths and current positions. Held in celebration of Women’s Studies Month, the panel is free and open to the public.

The speakers are as follows:

• Rosalind Barnett, Ph.D., is from Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.). A psychologist, she is the author of “He Works/She Works: How Two-Income Families Are Happy, Healthy, and Thriving.”
• Sumru Erkut, Ph.D., is a psychologist from The Wellesley Centers for Women (Mass.), and the director of new study on women leaders through the Winds of Change Foundation.
• Janie Victoria Ward, Ph.D., is a psychologist from Simmons College (Boston, Mass.) and Harvard School of Education. She is the author of “The Skin We’re in: Teaching Our Children to Be: Socially Smart, Emotionally Strong, Spiritually Connected” and “Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black.”

This panel is sponsored by the women’s studies concentration, the African American

WORCESTER, Mass. – The eighth annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 29, at 8 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Professor Jane Hawkins of the University of North Carolina will give this year’s lecture titled, “Smoothing out the Rough Edges of Fractals.”

Hawkins graduated from Holy Cross in 1976 and continued her studies as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Warwick in England, where she received her Ph.D. in 1981. Her research specialties include Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.

The lecture will be preceded by a dinner in the Hogan Campus Center.

The annual mathematical lecture series is a tribute to Leonard C. Sulski who taught in the mathematics department at Holy Cross from 1965 until his death from leukemia in 1991.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Peggy McIntosh, a nationally recognized expert on race and gender relations, will deliver a lecture on “White Privilege” on Monday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. She is founder and co-director of the United States S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). She consults widely in the U.S. and throughout the world with college and school faculty who are creating more gender-fair and multicultural curricula. McIntosh’s visit is part of Unity Week at Holy Cross. The goal of this week is to bring Holy Cross closer as a community and to provide opportunities to celebrate diversity on campus. This lecture is sponsored by the Counseling Center, Deans’ Office, Provost’s Office, President’s Office, Student Affairs, Multicultural Education, Campus Activities Board, and Academic Services and Learning Resources.

WORCESTER, Mass. – International travel expert Gil White will deliver a lecture titled “Europe & the World on 84 Cents a Day” on Wednesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. Sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, the lecture is free and open to the public.

White’s presentation is made up of a humorous, informative lecture, slide show and taped conversations with the natives. He gives his audience over 75 cost-saving methods and tips while traveling abroad, including creative ways to obtain free rides, accommodation and food. White also tells his audience how to save on foreign money exchange. He talks about the Eurorail, cycling and car rentals and includes some true anecdotes about foreign travel.

White obtained his education in Australia and the United States. He earned a B.A. in administration in Canada 1982. Currently in his 18th year, he has lectured at over 550 colleges and universities around the world.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Internationally renowned sociologist Richard Gelles will deliver a lecture on Monday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in Room 401 of the Hogan Campus Center. Gelles’ lecture, titled “Children First: Recommendations for Child Welfare Reform,” is free and open to the public.

Gelles holds The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. As co-director of the Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research at the School, his expertise is in child welfare and domestic violence.

Gelles earned his Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. He has taught at the University of Rhode Island and Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous books, including “Intimate Violence in Families,” “The Violent Home: A Study of Physical Aggression Between Husbands and Wives” and “Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family.”

Gelles’ visit is sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies concentration at Holy Cross.

WORCESTER, Mass. – “For the Greater Glory of God,” a dance theatre interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, will be performed at Holy Cross on Tuesday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Brooks Concert Hall. It will be repeated as an abbreviated show on Monday, March 26, at 12 p.m. in the Hogan Ballroom. Performances are free and open to the public.

Renowned for its annual performance of “A Dancer’s Christmas,” the Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble is an internationally acclaimed group of professional and student dancers committed to the exploration of religious expression through dance. Created and choreographed by Rev. Robert VerEecke, S.J., Jesuit Artist-in-Residence at Boston College, Pastor of St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill, and Director of the Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble, “For the Greater Glory of God” brings alive the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola with renewed imagination and spiritual impact.

This performance is sponsored by the Chaplains’ Office, the President’s Office, the Jesuit Community and the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.

WORCESTER, Mass. – There will be a “Women in Business Panel” on Tuesday, March 20, at 4 p.m. in Room 406 of the Hogan Campus Center. Three businesswomen will speak on a panel regarding the issues that women face in business. Some topics they will cover include the “glass ceiling,” the “mommy track” and the importance of networking. Held in celebration of Women’s Studies Month, the panel is free and open to the public.

The speakers are as follows:

• Christine Ryan McCarthy ’87 earned her M.B.A. from Babson College (Wellesley, Mass.). She is the director of Alliances Market Development at EMC Corp.
• Debra Shear earned her B.A. in psychology and B.S. in marketing from the University of Pennsylvania. She is assistant vice president and director of Direct Marketing at Liberty Mutual.
• Lynn Ashenbrenner earned her B.A. in psychology from Connecticut College. She is a senior search consultant at Prestonwood Associates.

The panel is co-sponsored by the Pre-Business Program and the Women’s Studies Concentration at Holy Cross.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Acoustic-driven rock band “Seeking Homer” will give a concert at 10 p.m. on Friday, March 16, in Crossroads, located in the Hogan Campus Center. Sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, the concert is free and open to the public.

Originally from New York City, Dave Oberacker, Mike Seda, James Dunlop and Tom Connors have been featured across the country at venues such as The Wetlands and Irving Plaza in NYC, the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., Schuba’s in Chicago, and The Grape Street in Philadelphia. The release of their most recent album, a double-live CD entitled Live-Wetlands-NYC, is the follow-up to their 1996 Streets and 1998 A Good Hard Smack, which collectively sold over 15,000 copies nationwide.

Seeking Homer is most well known for their live performances, playing at over 325 events, covering 26 states and over 50,000 miles. They have shared the stage with national acts including The Samples, Guster, Moxy Fruvous, Jupiter Coyote, Cowboy Mouth, Everything, Acoustic Junction and Agents of Good Roots. Seeking Homer has also appeared at the American League Division Series in Yankee Stadium and the 2000 AIDS Walk in Boston. In addition, the band recently had their version of “The Star Spangled Banner” selected to contribute to the soundtrack for the 100-year anniversary of the PGA’s US Open, aired nationwide on NBC.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The band Anatolia will give a performance of Middle Eastern music at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 16, in the Brooks Concert Hall. Sponsored by the Muslim Endeavor to Create Cultural Awareness (MECCA), the concert is free and open to the public.

Based in western Massachusetts, Anatolia was formed in 1994 to increase the awareness of Turkish and Arabic music through concerts, recordings, workshops and lectures. The group is made up of Edward Hines (‘ud, divan sazi, kaval, clarinet, zurna and vocals), Taner Okatan (saz, percussion and vocals), Michel Moushabeck (percussion) and Jamal Sinno (kanun).

Since its inception, Anatolia has presented concerts at major colleges and universities, festivals and music halls. The group appeared with the world renowned Simon Shaheen in a concert of music and dance from Turkey and the Arab world at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1999, Anatolia contributed a soundtrack of music to a BBC/WGBH documentary on Islam that aired as part of the award-winning series, “The People’s Century.”

The band’s debut anthology, “Folk Songs and Dance Music of Turkey and the Arab World,” features 11 pieces which represent urban folk and traditional village music from different regions. Their newest CD, “The Lost Songs of Palestine,” is due out in March. It is a collection of traditional folk songs which have been performed by generations of Palestinians, but which recently have been overshadowed or lost after years of conflict.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Today the Holy Cross Public Affairs office is launching the revised Holy Cross Experts Media Guide. This online tool is designed to aid journalists in locating Holy Cross faculty who are experts in specific fields. It is located at https://webapps.holycross.edu/webapps/emg/.

The Experts Media Guide is user-friendly and promises to make it easier and less time-consuming to find experts. Searchable by subject, the guide includes an e-mail address and office phone number for each faculty member, so that a journalist may contact that person directly. The guide also supplies the user with a brief biography of the expert, including academic title and degree information, and a photograph.

WORCESTER, Mass. – There will be a number of musical events during the month of March at Holy Cross. All concerts are free and open to the public.

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday, March 15, at 8 p.m. – Jennifer Blades ’89, soprano, will perform a concert in the Brooks Concert Hall.

Thursday, March 22, at 8 p.m. – The Holy Cross Chamber Players will perform an All-Beethoven Program in the Brooks Concert Hall.

Thursday, March 29, at 8 p.m. – An Electro-Acoustic Music Concert will take place in the Brooks Concert Hall.

Friday, March 30, at 8 p.m. – The Holy Cross Chamber Singers will perform a concert in the Brooks Concert Hall.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Professor Aleksandar Jokic will deliver a lecture on Monday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. in the Browsing Room of Dinand Library. Jokic’s lecture, titled “What American Peacemakers Should Know about the Balkans,” is free and open to the public.

A native of Yugoslavia, Jokic is currently the director of the Center for Philosophical Education in Santa Barbara, Calif., and an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University, Ore. He is the author and editor of several books on topics ranging from philosophy of science to collective responsibility for war crimes. He is the editor of “War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing: A Reader.”

Jokic’s visit is sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies concentration.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Funk/soul band “Averi” will give a concert at 10 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24, in Crossroads, located in the Hogan Campus Center. Sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, the concert is free and open to the public.

Chad Perrone, Matt Lydon, Mike Currier and Mike Sanders make up the band that originated at Suffolk University in Boston. The band was first named “Shug’ Daddy” in 1997 when Currier and Lydon were looking to start a new funk/soul group. At Fall Fest ’97, a talent showcase held at Suffolk, the band debuted with its new, inventive sounds. Since then, the band’s structure has changed a bit, with Perrone and Sanders entering the mix. Major acts from which the band draws inspiration include Live, Guster, Radiohead and the Roots.

Averi currently can be heard live on various university radio stations and seen playing all over New England. They are also in the process of compiling a major album. The CD is expected to draw audiences from all across the musical spectrum, bringing together jazz, hip-hop, funk and pop into one unique and new sound.