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On March 1, Rabbi Norman M. Cohen gave a speech at Holy Cross titled “What’s a Nice Jewish Boy Doing at Holy Cross?” The lecture was sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and the Kraft-Hiatt Fund. A 1972 graduate of Holy Cross, Cohen is currently the spiritual leader of Bet Shalom Congregation in Hopkins, Minn. Prior to this position, Cohen served Rockdale Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In his lecture, Cohen spoke of his experiences as a Jewish student at Holy Cross, how he came to choose his career path as a rabbi, and the many individuals that have had significant impact on his life. In addition to personal, and often humorous accounts of his younger years, Cohen insightfully described the overlaps and differences that exist among the Christian and Jewish religions. He placed stress on the idea that “We need to forgo the luxury of separate ways when a common path can be found.” Opening his talk by defining the Yiddish term beshert as an event in which God has played a role, Cohen ended his lecture by reminding his audience that “One does not have to be a minister, priest or a rabbi to have a calling or spiritual destiny. It comes from what we do when we discover ours, when we experience something beshert.”

Cohen received a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1975 and Rabbinic Ordination in 1977. He has taught at numerous colleges, including Xavier University (Ohio), Macalester College (Minn.) and the United Theological Seminary (Ohio).

He is the author of “Jewish Bible Personages in the New Testament” (University Press of America). The past president of the Midwest Association of Reform Rabbis, he has served on a number of boards of Jewish and inter-religious organizations.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Kimball!

Who:    All Holy Cross Students
What:    Valentine’s Day Dinner and “Love Artists’ Dessert Event”
Where:    Kimball Main Dining Room
When:    Wednesday,
February 14,
4:30 -7:00 p.m.*
Menu:Have fun creating sweet messages to your Valentine, using the following Love Artists’ Tools:

* Miniature Baked Cakes
* Heart Sugar Cookies
* White Icing
* Pink Icing
* Chocolate Icing
* Sweetheart Red Icing
* Leaf Green Icing

* Red Hots
* Chocolate Jimmies
* Multi-Colored Jimmies
* Red Kissed Jimmies
* Conversation Hearts
* Candy Cherub Charms
* Candy Roses

Motivational speaker Drew Brown will deliver a lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center. Sponsored by the Black Student Union, Campus Activities Board, Naval Science (NROTC) department and the President’s Office, this lecture is free and open to the public.

Drew Brown is nationally acclaimed as an author and motivational speaker. He lectures on the theme, “Education Plus Hard Work Minus Drugs Equals Success and the American Dream.” Founder of “The American Dream,” a program designed to combat the problems faced by today’s youth, Brown is the best-selling author of “You Gotta Believe.” He has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Fortune Magazine and many other publications.

Brown grew up in Harlem, N.Y., and later attended Southern University (La.). In 1981, he entered the United States Navy and was commissioned via Aviation Officer Candidate School. Upon earning his “Wings of Gold,” he joined the oldest attack squadron in naval aviation history, “The Black Panthers.” Currently a naval commander, Brown is an active member of the Naval Reserves and joined Federal Express Corporation as a pilot in June 1988.

Brown has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the President of the United States and the United States Chamber of Commerce Special Salute for his outstanding leadership and deep concern for the country’s youth. Brown is a recent recipient of the Congressional Black Caucus Male Achievement Award and The Freedom Foundation Medal given by the United States Supreme Court.

Howie Day will give a concert at 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 13, in Crossroads, located in the basement of the Hogan Campus Center. The concert is free and open to Holy Cross and Consortium students with college IDs.

Based out of Belmont, Mass., 20-year old Day has been performing his blend of acoustic pop to audiences all over the country. He has performed over 200 shows in the last year and has shared the stage with acts like Jewel, Guster, Eve 6, Shawn Mullins, Edwin McCain, Sister Hazel, Vertical Horizon and Hootie & The Blowfish.

Day’s performances have drawn comparisons to artists such as Dave Matthews and Duncan Sheik. His constant touring has started to develop a growing following throughout the Northeast. In early November, Day released his first full-length CD, Australia.

While college students around the country are enjoying their spring break vacationing in exotic locales, approximately 350 Holy Cross students will depart from Worcester on March 3 to spend their spring break participating in Habitat for Humanity and the Appalachia Service Program.

A chapter of Habitat for Humanity was established at Holy Cross last year. That same year, Holy Cross’ chapter was recognized nationally as the college who sent the most student volunteers on the Collegiate Challenge alternate spring break experience. This year, 10% of the entire student body will travel to Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Palm Beach, Miami and Lake County, Fla.; as well as Flint River, Ga.; Calhoun County and Birmingham, Ala.; Starkville, Miss.; and Tarboro, N.C., to build low-income housing.

Entirely student-run, Holy Cross Habitat for Humanity volunteers work in Worcester and Northboro year-round. Katie Boland ’01, Emily Hogan ’02, Ryan Leonard ’02 and Jessica Baker ’03 make up the executive board.

Students involved in the Appalachia Service Program (a program created at Holy Cross more than 20 years ago) will travel to 12 sites in New Jersey, Virginia, Kentucky and Maine, to assist with home repair, visit the elderly, work in soup kitchens, help the disabled and tutor school children.

This year’s program is being lead by Chris Kearns-Barrett, a 1983 graduate of Holy Cross. (His wife, Marybeth Kearns-Barrett, is an associate director in the Chaplains’ Office at Holy Cross and a member of the Class of 1984.) Run through the Chaplains’ Office, Erin Dwyer and Jared Belliveau, both members of the Class of 2001, are the student coordinators.

Men

With a 77-67 win Wednesday night over Navy, Holy Cross captured its first regular-season Patriot League crown. The 2000-01 Crusaders boast a season record of 19-5 overall, and 9-1 in Patriot League play. Under head coach Ralph Willard ‘’67, the men earned a first-round bye in the Patriot League Tournament, which begins March 4 at Navy. The tourney champion gets an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

The Crusaders will play their final home game of the regular season on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. against Lafayette in the Hart Center.

Women

Coached by Bill Gibbons, the 2000-01 Crusaders are undefeated in the Patriot League (10-0), and 18-7 overall. With a win Wednesday night over Navy (78-77), the team clinched its fifth-straight Patriot League regular season title and eighth overall.

Coming off an impressive victory over Michigan (62-58), the Crusaders have won 52 consecutive home game against Patriot League opponents at the Hart Center.

The Crusaders will play their final home game of the regular season on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 1 p.m. against Lafayette in the Hart Center.

Combined, the Holy Cross men’s and women’’s basketball teams are ranked first in the nation for the highest conference winning percentage. With a combined record of 19-1, the Crusaders lead teams such as Pennsylvania, Tennessee Tech and Notre Dame, with a .944 winning percentage.

In addition, Holy Cross is one of only seven Division I schools in the nation in which both basketball teams are leading their respective conferences. In so doing, Holy Cross joins ranks with schools such as Iowa State, Notre Dame and Kent State.

The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross presents “Kingdom,” new work by Holy Cross professor Robert ParkeHarrison, and “Clay and Steel,” sculpture by Barbara Diduk, from March 12 to April 14, 2001.

There will be an exhibition opening reception on Wednesday, March 14, from 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and a gallery talk by the artists on Monday, March 26, at 4 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.

This exhibition brings together two artists who express anxiety about today’s ravaged, industrial landscape in their own, unique ways. ParkeHarrison makes a new series of photographic and mixed media works that address the ecological concerns conveyed in his previous art. Diduk explores our relation to the machine and nature with three-dimensional clay and steel forms.

In his art, ParkeHarrison creates desolate landscapes placed beneath a pale, cloudless sky. A lone figure scurries about, tinkering with obsolete machine-like contraptions as part of his futile attempt to salvage and restore the earth’s devastated surface. The artist combines varnish washes with photographic techniques that give the work a vintage feel in order to suggest a fictional world charged with loss, struggle and personal discovery.

Diduk’s spare, elegant clay and steel sculptural forms refer to modern industrial objects and machine tools. Arranged in groups, the scale of the pieces ranges from miniature to almost human size. Diduk restricts the floor piece surfaces to subdued grays and blacks or sleek silver and gold luster while her shelf pieces burst with bright red color. Like ParkeHarrison’s work, Diduk’s elongated, human-like forms possess humor.

Both artists are faculty at liberal arts colleges who currently show their work in New York. ParkeHarrison is an assistant professor of visual arts at Holy Cross, and exhibits at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, N.Y. Diduk is a faculty member at Dickinson College, Penn., and shows at Nancy Margolis Gallery, N.Y.

The hours for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery are Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. It is located in O’Kane Hall at the College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, Mass., 01610. Admission to the gallery is free.

The musical Anything Goes will be performed Feb. 23-25 at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross. Matinee performances will take place Feb. 24-25 at 2 p.m.

The production, presented by the Holy Cross Class of 2001, is directed by Jose Lozada ’01, produced by Elizabeth Kozlowski ’01, choreographed by Kiley Corcoran ’01 with musical direction by Ted Lombardi ’01.

Tickets are $6 for Holy Cross students and $8 general admission; they will be available at the door.

All proceeds will be donated to the Mustard Seed soup kitchen in Worcester.

Barry Kingston and the Screaming Souls will give a concert at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 6, in Crossroads, located in the basement of the Hogan Campus Center. The concert is free and open to Holy Cross and Consortium students with college IDs. Led by singer-songwriter Barry Kingston, the Screaming Souls has been establishing itself on the club scene since 1997. Comprised of guitarist Joe Boyle, bassist John O’Boyle and drummer Jason Arnold, the band’s music is described as a mixture of the Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, Sly Stone and U2. The Screaming Souls recently released their debut album, “Shakin’ From The Trees,” on J-Bird Records, which has been receiving rave reviews. The album is described as an eclectic blend of sounds that mirror Kingston’s unique musical vision of modern rock.

Writer Paul Beatty will give a reading on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 4:30 p.m. in the Browsing Room of Dinand Library. Sponsored by the Jenks Chair, the English department and African American studies, the reading is free and open to the public.

The author of two collections of verse, “Big Bank Take Little Bank” and “Joker, Joker, Deuce,” and two novels, “Tuff” and “The White Boy Shuffle,” Beatty has been labeled the “premier bard of hip-hop.”

The New York-based writer draws from popular culture in his poems and novels. There are countless references, ranging from hip-hop and jazz to comic books, kung-fu films and basketball obsessions, in his writing.

Beatty received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he studied with poet Allen Ginsberg.

Dr. Christine Kondoleon, Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Worcester Art Museum, will deliver a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. Kondoleon’s lecture is free and open to the public.

Set beneath the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments, the monastery was built by command of the Emperor Justinian between 527 and 564 A.D. to house the bones of St. Catherine of Alexandria. The Monastery has been one of the world’s great centers of religious pilgrimage for over 15 centuries. Inside its walls, the monastery houses an impressive library of ancient manuscripts and icons.

One of the greatest draws to the monastery is a 6th-century church reputed to lie directly on the site of the burning bush. This biblical story, from the Book of Exodus, depicts how God talked to Moses from within a burning bush, telling him that He would deliver Israel from Egypt. Although the bush was on fire, it did not burn up. The bush at the monastery is believed to be the actual plant from the Old Testament.

This lecture is sponsored by the College’s Classics Department and the Hellenic Arts Society of Worcester.

Five faculty members at Holy Cross have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

Miles B. Cahill of the economics department earned a bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University, and both a master’s and Ph.D. from Purdue University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1995, Cahill has served on the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty and the College Advisory Board on Alcohol. He was also a Judicial Advisor to the Holy Cross Community Standards Board. Cahill is the recipient of a Batchelor-Ford Summer Faculty Fellowship. He is the author of “Exploring the Interaction between Efficiency Wages and Labor Market Frictions”, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (2000). He resides in Hopkinton.

Katherine A. Kiel of the economics department earned a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1998, Kiel has served on the Committee on Graduate Studies and Fellowships and the Environmental Studies Committee. The recipient of a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Co-operative Agreement, Kiel is currently researching “National Estimates of the Prices of Environmental Goods.” A recent member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Housing Research, Kiel performs consulting work for a number of private firms. She is co-author of “The Economic Benefits of Cleaning Superfund Sites,” Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (2000). She is a resident of Newton.

Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J. of the religious studies department earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and masters’ degrees from Georgetown University, the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and Yale University. He also earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Yale University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1994, Linnane is active in several professional associations. He is author of the forthcoming “Karl Rahner’s Theocentric Ethic of Discipleship” (Peter Lang Publishing, 2001). Linnane is the recipient of a Batchelor-Ford Summer Faculty Fellowship. He resides in Worcester.

Robert H. ParkeHarrison the visual arts department earned a bachelor’s degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and a master’s degree from the University of New Mexico. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, ParkeHarrison is active on college panels and outreach programs in art. A recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, ParkeHarrison’s artwork is shown in galleries around the world. His work, photographic and mixed media that addresses contemporary ecological concerns, is currently on solo exhibit at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, N.Y. ParkeHarrison is author of “The Architect’s Brother” (Twin Palms/Twelve Trees Press, 2000). He is a resident of Worcester.

Jessica P. Waldoff of the music department received a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, and both a master’s and Ph.D. from Cornell University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1995, Waldoff has served on the Faculty Affairs Committee and the Academic Affairs Council. She is author of the forthcoming essay, “Die Zauberflote,” in A Mozart Companion (Oxford University Press, 2001). Waldoff is active in many professional music societies, including the Mozart Society of America. She is a resident of Natick.