The Boston College
Chronicle
november 15, 2007-vol. 16 no. 6
‘House of Inquiry’ Opens
Manresa House to
serve as center for
vocational discernment
By Jack Dunn
Director of Public Affairs
Since the establishment of the
first Jesuit universities, a major
tenet of Ignatian spirituality has
been for students to ask, “What
does God want me to do?”
For those students exploring a
vocation in ordained ministry and
religious life, the opening of Manresa House, the first center for
vocational discernment at Boston
College, will help to assist in that
exploration.
Opened Nov. 1 in a University-owned property on 24 Mayflower Road, Manresa House will
offer information and programming on vocational ministry and
serve as a meeting place for stu-
dents who are contemplating religious service. Sponsored jointly
by the Office of Campus Ministry
at Boston College and the New
England Province of the Society
of Jesus, the “house of inquiry,” as
it is called, will be directed by Jack
Butler, SJ, a BC campus minister
and director of vocations for the
New England Province.
Manresa House, which contains common meeting areas,
four bedrooms, a prayer room,
a kitchen and a TV room, will
host student candidates for the
Society of Jesus for stays ranging
from a weekend to several weeks,
during which they will meet with
Fr. Butler to discuss their calling. They will also be assigned a
Jesuit companion who will meet
them for dinner and offer formational guidance. Manresa House
will also afford BC students the
opportunity to interact with vocation directors from other religious
orders and dioceses throughout
New England who will be invited
to talk about the unique attributes
of their ministry.
“The Church in general and
the Society of Jesus in particular have increased our sensitivity
toward the need for vocational
promotion,” said Campus Ministry Director James Erps, SJ. “Our
office has always been involved in
helping students to reflect on what
they will do with their lives. This
house, and the work of Fr. Jack
Butler, will specify this important
option.”
Manresa House is an extension
of an outreach effort begun by
University President William P.
Leahy, SJ, who started a priesthood discussion group in 1998
for BC students who were considering a vocation. His group,
which meets monthly in his office,
engages students in frank discussions of priestly life and the joys
In Good
Company
Photo by Lee
Pellegrini
By Ed Hayward
Staff Writer
INSIDE:
and challenges that such a calling holds. Since its founding nine
years ago, approximately a dozen
of the group’s participants have
gone into the priesthood. It was
in response to the success of the
discussion group that Fr. Leahy
decided to establish Manresa
House this year.
At its opening, several dozen
BC students joined Fr. Butler,
Jesuit Provincial Thomas Regan,
As the two in“It is absolutely not entirely a coincidence
terviewed for their
that we are here together now,” says
posts, they spoke
frequently about
Jianmin Gao (left), with Dunwei Wang,
their experiences
and philosophies long-time colleagues who are both faculty
about scientific remembers in the Chemistry Department.
search and teaching. In the end,
faculty factored into the decision
both saw a fit with the Chemistry Wang made.
Department.
“We’ve really been treated very
“Most importantly, we were well,” said Wang, a physical chemboth attracted by the department ist and assistant professor whose
here,” Gao says. “As we met our research explores nanometer scaled
new colleagues, it was intriguing in materials. “BC is very supportthat there is so much interest in the ive with everything. There is a
work everyone is doing. Everybody real commitment to the students
seems motivated to bring out the and to the (research) facilities. And
best in themselves and their col- Boston is a great city.”
leagues.”
While the two men knew of
Continued on page 5
Facilities and support for new
The joy of sports (page 2)
Pre-med program enjoying
boom times (page 3)
SJ, and a representation of vocation directors ranging from the
Archdiocese of Boston to the Legionnaires of Christ in celebrating
a resource that holds such great
promise for all involved.
“I have thought about a vocation in the past,” said BC senior
Timothy Moriarty, a philosophy
major from Seattle, “and I know
there are a lot of people at BC who
Continued on page 4
University Completes
Protocol for Hate Crimes
By Sean Smith
Chronicle Editor
Chemists Wang and
Gao can’t seem to
shake each other
Dunwei Wang grew up in a
family of farmers in the village that
bears his surname, Wang Ten, in
China’s Shangdong Province.
Jianmin Gao was raised a few
hundred miles away, in the city of
Liaocheng.
That they both find themselves
among the newly hired faculty at
Boston College this fall isn’t necessarily a coincidence, insist the
young scientists – rather the latest steps in two distinguished academic journeys that have taken the
men from China to California and
now Boston.
Boston College is the third
university where the two chemists
have found themselves – and their
wives as well – since they first met
as undergraduates nearly a decade
ago at the prestigious University
of Science and Technology China,
founded by the Chinese Academy
of Science, in Anhui Province.
“It is absolutely not entirely
a coincidence that we are here
together now,” said Gao, a chemical biologist and assistant professor who researches the underlying
mechanisms that shape proteins.
Sister Patricia of the Little Sisters of the Poor speaks with freshman Abigail
Craycraft at the opening of Manresa House Nov. 1. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
Boston College has completed a protocol to assist members
of the University community
in dealing with suspected hate
crimes or bias-motivated offensive conduct.
The protocol, developed by
the Office of Institutional Diversity and Student Affairs in concert with a committee of administrators, faculty, staff and students,
provides clear definitions of actions or behaviors that are considered hate crimes or bias-motivated offenses. It also describes
University policies, procedures
and resources for reporting or
responding to physical, verbal or
other form of attack on the basis
of race, religion, gender, sexual
orientation, disability, nationality
or ethnicity.
Plans call for the protocol to
be made available on the Office
of Institutional Diversity Web
site [www.bc.edu/offices/diversity/] within the next two weeks,
according to administrators involved in the project.
The Web site also will include
summary data on hate crimes and
bias-motivated offensive conduct
as well as resources to aid in recording those incidents that may
meet the criteria for hate crimes
or bias-motivated offenses.
Nothing half-baked about
Arrupe volunteers (page 4)
“This project has been useful
in a couple of ways,” said Interim
Vice President for Student Affairs
Sheilah Shaw Horton, co-chair of
the Protocol Review Committee,
formed last fall in the wake of
concerns over diversity and racerelated issues on campus.
“First, it’s important to recognize that we did not create new
processes, but rather have described ones already in place. The
protocol brings together existing
information and resources so that
the BC community knows what
to do and whom to call — and
what to expect — in possible
cases of hate crimes or bias-motivated offensive conduct.
“The meetings we held were a
good opportunity for us to reflect
on these processes, as well as our
roles and responsibilities, and the
degree of communication necessary, in making them work. It
also became evident to us that
a large segment of the BC community does not know about the
processes and resources available
to deal with these areas.”
Committee members say the
posting of the protocol on the
Office of Institutional Diversity
Web site will be complemented
by forums and orientation sessions that encourage discussion of
hate crimes and related matters.
“We may become more aware
Continued on page 6
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 15, 2007
AROUND
CAMPUS
Native American voice
The AHANA Graduate Student Association offered
an opportunity Tuesday night to hear a seldom-heard
viewpoint on campus, sponsoring a talk in Higgins 310
by Janice Falcone, a top administrator at the North
American Indian Center of Boston, which provides social programs for the Native American community.
Falcone, who is director of the center’s Workforce
Investment Act program, spoke about the history of
North American Native Americans, the challenges they
face, and the initiatives the center has taken to address
these issues.
The center itself has been coping with its own difficulties: Two years ago, the state sold to a developer
more than half of the center’s 1.8 acres of land — space
that had been used for youth activities, sacred ceremonies and other events. Earlier this year the center, which
is seeking to replace its current building, signed a lease
with the state that will allow it to stay on the remaining
property for 99 years.
“In keeping with the Jesuit vision of men and women
for others, we wanted the Boston College community
to have a chance to be educated about Native American
issues from a Native American perspective,” said association co-president Marlon Cummings.
While Native Americans make up less than one
percent of the BC student population, Cummings says,
“their voices should be heard, because they are part of
this community: We should know about not only their
struggles, but also their accomplishments.”
—SS
Invitation
Members of the University community are invited to join
in a celebration of the career of Rev. Edward J. Hanrahan, SJ,
on Monday, Nov. 19, from 3 to 6 p.m. in Gasson 100.
Before his recent retirement, Fr. Hanrahan served Boston College for more than 40 years – 22 of them as dean of
students and the past 21 as special assistant in the University
Development Office.
Anyone who would like to attend Monday’s event should
RSVP to Jacalyn Dziados in University Advancement at ext.
2-0480 or dziados@bc.edu.
Vice President and Special Assistant to
the President — and perennial campus
favorite — William B. Neenan, SJ,
was the featured speaker at the Nov.
6 “Agape Latte” event at the Hillside
Cafe. Afterwards, he visited with
sophomores (L-R) Julia Gabbert, Kellie
Braam and Laura Regan.
(Photo by Frank Curran)
The Boston College
Chronicle
Director of Public Affairs
Jack Dunn
Team spirit
‘QUOTE/UNQUOTE’
It’s been said many times this
fall: What with the Red Sox,
Patriots and Celtics — to say
nothing of a certain college football team that plays in Alumni
Stadium — enjoying success, it’s
a great time to be a Boston sports
fan.
But does all this hoopla really
make us happy?
Well, yes — and in a variety
of ways, according to Assoc. Prof.
Joseph Tecce (Psychology), who
was recently interviewed on the
subject by Bloomberg News.
Even if you’re not a regular
sports fan who identifies with a
team, he explains, getting caught
up temporarily in the enthusiasm for the game and the winning atmosphere has its benefits.
“It has a displacement effect: No
need to worry about the increase
in auto insurance rates. Why be
bothered with the leaky faucet or
broken backyard fence? No time
for that now. “But the faucet and fence
problems don’t go away. And it
is precisely the surge of success
of our sports teams that gives
us a positive mood and high
energy level to tackle those same
File photo
Don’t Knock the Thrill of Victory
practical problems. Yes, we can
have it both ways. Having fun
with sports teams takes our minds
off problems today and gives us
a good mood and energy level
to tackle those same problems
tomorrow.”
Sports success has a social component, Tecce adds: “Each win
gives family and friends an opportunity for celebrations, not complaints and not disagreements. And
there is a herd effect. People are
talking to each other more than
ever. Even curmudgeons are smiling these days and being sociable.
Someone may be all business but
it’s hard to resist sharing all the
sports successes with others.”
Call them superstitious, Tecce
says, but some fans become convinced their behaviors are linked
to their team’s performance —
and are therefore doubly gratified when their actions appear to
help bring victory.
One student refused to shave
his beard until the World Series
was over, notes Tecce. Another
student would vary his location
to coincide with the progress of
a Red Sox game: one room for
when the Sox batted, another if
they were in the field, a third if
the game wasn’t going well for
them — “In this way, he helps
them bat, field, and win.”
Then there was the friend of
Tecce who claimed that whenever his wife watched a game
on TV, the Red Sox would fall
behind, and if she left the room
they would surge ahead.
“So when the Sox played a
critical game, she decided to
make a big sacrifice and not
watch with her husband,” says
Tecce. “And the Sox won.”
—Sean Smith
USA Today is conducting its
annual search for the nation’s best
and brightest students and Boston
College faculty are encouraged to
submit nominations.
Twenty students will be named
to its First Team, each of whom
will be featured in a two-page color presentation in the newspaper
in February 2008, receive a trophy
and a $2500 cash award. Forty
more students will be recognized
in the newspaper as second and
third team winners.
BC students have been recognized by this competition six times
since Elizabeth LaRocca ’94 made
the First Team. Most recently,
history and political science major
Jonathan Lennon ’05 made the
third team in the 2005 competition.
Beginning this year, students
must register electronically and
be screened for eligibility. They
may register at http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/200705-17-2008-allstar-college-apply_
N.htm. Other information about
the process, including FAQs for
nominees and advice for nominators, can be found on the Web site.
Questions also may be addressed
to Carol Skalski at 703-854-5890
or allstars@usatoday.com.
Nomination forms must be
postmarked by Nov. 30.
—OPA
Deputy Director of
Public AFFAIRS
Patricia Delaney
Editor
Sean Smith
Contributing Staff
Ed Hayward
Reid Oslin
Rosanne Pellegrini
Kathleen Sullivan
Eileen Woodward
Photographers
Gary Gilbert
Lee Pellegrini
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T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 15, 2007
University Pre-Medical Program Enrollment Continues to Grow
BC rate of admission
to medical schools well
above national average
By Ed Hayward
Staff Writer
Enrollment in Boston College’s
pre-medical program grew by 44
percent during the last five years,
and pre-med students now make
up roughly a quarter of the College
of Arts and Sciences, according to
University statistics.
Figures also show the medical
school acceptance rate for those
students who complete the BC
pre-med program is well above the
national average.
The program’s growth is not
lost on students, who admit to
being surprised by the number of
their peers who filled a campus
lecture hall last spring for a program-wide meeting.
“You don’t really realize how
many people are involved in this
program when you’re in your classes or meeting with an advisor,”
says Danielle Currier ’08, a biology
major who plans to apply to dental
school. “When you’re all in one
room, it’s a little overwhelming.
But it’s nice to know you’re not in
this alone.”
Assoc. Prof. Robert Wolff (Biology) directs the program and attributes its rapid growth to a hardearned reputation for academic
rigor and attention to students, as
well as a corresponding enrollment
increase in the natural sciences at
Boston College.
But while science majors
dominate the rolls of candidates
for medical, veterinary or dental
school, the BC program follows a
liberal arts model that encourages
students from majors beyond the
sciences to fulfill the pre-med program as well.
“I think Boston College has
developed a reputation for a very
strong pre-med program and that
in itself becomes self-fulfilling,”
Wolff says. “Students feel they are
taken care of and get good advising, and they let their fellow
students or prospective students
know. So some of what we are
enjoying is word-of-mouth at a
national level.”
The program’s attention to detail has paid off for the students
who make it through the application process. In 2005-06, 73 percent of the Boston College seniors
who applied to medical schools
were admitted. Nationally, the acceptance rate to medical school
stood at 47 percent in 2006.
“The Boston College pre-med,
pre-dental, and pre-vet program
is among the best in the country,”
says Prof. Tom Chiles (Biology),
the department chairman. “It is a
phenomenal program and Robert
Wolff has done an incredible job
to get it there.”
This fall, pre-med enrollment
stands at 1,497, compared to the
1,039 students in 2002, according to Student Services data. During the same period, enrollments
in the natural sciences increased
roughly 40 percent. In all, pre-med
students make up approximately
25 percent of the 6,108 students
enrolled in the College of Arts and
Sciences this fall.
“When I was looking for a college to attend, I wanted one with a
well-organized and well-structured
pre-med program and BC fit that,”
says Jason Saunders ’08, who is
applying to medical schools including Penn, Georgetown, Uni-
Assoc. Prof. Robert Wolff (Biology), director of Boston College’s pre-medical program, with Danielle Currier ’08 (left) and
Bethel Belai ’11. “I think Boston College has developed a reputation for a very strong pre-med program and that in itself becomes self-fulfilling,” says Wolff. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
versity of Pittsburgh and Temple
University.
A student who plans to enter
medical school in the fall following
graduation must begin the application process for medical school
in October of junior year. There
is a long list of deadlines to meet
for applications, essays, and advising appointments, says Wolff.
Students meet regularly with an
assigned faculty advisor and Wolff
keeps students up to date through
the program Web site and routine
e-mails.
In addition to their course work
and test scores, medical school
applicants are expected to have
had significant experiences in the
health sciences.
Alumni in the Boston area participate in the Eagle Docs program,
providing mentorship and service
A Call for Renewing Conservation Efforts
By Reid Oslin
Staff Writer
As temperatures fall and energy prices rise, University energy administrators are calling for
members of the Boston College
community to renew campuswide efforts to conserve heat and
electricity.
Director of Facilities Services
Michael Jednak says an energy
conservation effort launched last
year yielded a significant savings
in heat and electricity costs, but
even more energy belt-tightening
is needed this year to help keep
costs down.
“When we had the last campaign going, we were saving about
a million kilowatt hours a month,”
Jednak notes. “That has eroded.
We need everybody’s help to get
back there.”
Electricity use on campus
has skyrocketed over the past six
months, increasing 24 percent
over the same time frame of a year
ago, according to Jednak.
Facilities Services Utility Manager Deirdre Manning says her
office is implementing a variety
of programs to remind students,
faculty and staff of the need to
conserve energy in their homes
as well as their offices, classrooms
and workspaces.
“Obviously, energy is expensive for everyone,” she says. “At
the Health Fair today [10 a.m.-3
p.m. in the Murray Room of the
Yawkey Athletic Center], we will
be giving out tips on what people
can do to save energy at home,
and we hope that employees will
be more likely to implement these
energy-saving practices at work as
well.”
Manning said Facilities Management is also working with a
student environmental group,
EcoPledge, to establish a “Bulb
Brigade” to introduce more energy-efficient compact fluorescent
light bulbs to the University community.
“We had students who worked
with us during the summer, surveying offices and trying to get an
idea of what we refer to as ‘plug-in
power’ – what people bring to BC
and stick in the sockets,” she says.
“To some extent, we can control the overhead lighting and
retrofit inefficient lighting, but
things like halogen desk lamps
or even regular desk lamps with
incandescent light bulbs use up
to 75 percent more energy than
fluorescent bulbs. If you multiply
that by the number of table lamps
used at BC, it can add up to a
pretty significant amount.”
Manning says that teams of
EcoPledge students will be visiting campus offices this semester to
explain the environmental – and
economic – benefits of using compact fluorescent bulbs and asking
workers to make a switch.
“When these bulbs first came
out over 20 years ago, they had
a weird orange glow,” Manning
says, noting that many people
did not like the original product.
“But now, they have a nice bright
white light and they do save quite
a bit of money.” The compact
fluorescent bulbs also reduce the
emission of greenhouse gases and
other pollutants while reducing
our dependence on fossil fuels,
she says.
The Facilities Management office is also working with Residential Life staff members to encourage greater recycling in addition to
conserving energy use in campus
housing units.
opportunities to current students.
Paul Hesketh, MD, ’74, chief
of the Division of Hematology
Oncology at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s
Medical Center, is an Eagle Doc
who sees the program as an invaluable component to the pre-medical
student experience.
“There is nothing more valuable than real world experiences to
help students transform theoretical concepts into reality,” Hesketh
said. “The Eagle Docs program
is a tremendous resource for BC
undergraduates, providing an opportunity to be exposed first hand
to a whole spectrum of healthcare
settings and to ‘test the waters’
in non-threatening and supportive
environments.”
Kelly Fitzgerald ’08 says Wolff
and his staff – including assistant
directors Patricia O’Kane and Erin
Curley – pay close attention to
details and make sure students are
aware of what’s ahead. In addition,
the members of the BC Pre-medical Committee work one on one
with students, and Wolff credits
the recent success of the program
to their commitment to high quality undergraduate advising.
“The one-on-one consults I’ve
had with my advisor and with Professor Wolff make a big difference,”
says Fitzgerald, who is applying to
joint MD/PhD programs including University of Massachusetts
Medical School, Tufts University,
University of Connecticut and
Yale University. “Professor Wolff
has been great pointing me in the
right direction, or helping to tweak
an essay or express something differently in order to get my point
across.”
CONSERVING ENERGY
•Turn off nonessential and decorative lighting, especially in unoccupied areas.
•Turn off computers, monitors, printers,
copiers and lights every night and when not
being used. If you can’t turn off the whole computer, turn off the monitor and printer.
•For optimal energy savings, set thermostats
to 78 degrees for cooling in summer and 68
degrees for heating in winter; this will save 1020 percent of cooling costs and 5-20 percent of
heating costs.
•Make sure that all windows are closed and
locked to keep out drafts.
•Notify the Work Order Center (ext.2-3048)
about overheating or malfunctioning windows
and doors.
•Support the EcoPledge “Bulb Brigade” when
they visit your office space.
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
Associate Deans, Librarian
Selected for New School
By Sean Smith
Chronicle Editor
The newly created Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM) recently strengthened
its administrative leadership, as
STM Dean Richard Clifford, SJ,
announced the appointments of
Jennifer L. S. Bader, Jacqueline
M. Regan and John P. Stachniewicz as associate deans.
In addition, Fr. Clifford announced that Esther Griswold has
accepted the position of librarian
for STM, which will begin holding classes in the fall of 2008 at
the University’s Brighton Campus.
STM comprises BC’s Institute
of Re­ligious Education and Pastoral Ministry, BC’s Church in
the 21st Century online programs
and the Weston Jesuit School of
Theology, which is re-affiliating
with Boston College.
As vice president and special assistant to the president at Weston
Jesuit, Stachniewicz played a key
role in the reaffiliation process
with BC, representing the school
at planning meetings in such areas
as information technology, budgeting, marketing, facilities and
admission. He also coordinated
strategic and operational matters
at the school and was a member of
the board’s budget committee.
Prior to his appointment as
vice president, Stachniewicz was
assistant dean and director of enrollment and registrar at Weston
Jesuit.
In addition to serving as dean
of students at Weston Jesuit for
three years, Regan has been the
school’s director of lay spiritual
development since 2005. Previously she served as director of
campus ministry at St. Mary’s
High School in Lynn — where
she also taught history and religion and coached track and field
— and as head of youth/adult
faith formation at St. John the
Baptist Parish in Peabody.
Bader, an adjunct assistant
professor in BC’s Theology Department, has served as associate director of academic affairs at
IREPM since 2003. Among her
duties as associate director, she
has coordinated dual and joint
degree programs with BC graduate school academic deans and
faculty, worked on revising curriculums to reflect current issues
and events, as well as played key
roles in the areas of admissions
and recruitment and student advising and mentoring.
Griswold was appointed as
director of library and information services for Weston Jesuit
in 2001, and has been responsible for the overall organization,
development and operation of
the School of Theology library,
which is shared with the Episcopal Divinity School. During the
Weston-BC reaffiliation process,
she has chaired the team overseeing the transition of Weston’s
more than 100,000-volume collection of books, periodicals, documents and other materials to
the former St. John’s Seminary
Library on Brighton Campus.
Students from BC, as well as
STM and St. John’s, will have
access to the library, although St.
John’s and Weston Jesuit retain
ownership of their collections.
Announcing the appointments,
Fr. Clifford said: “The three new
associate deans — Jennifer L. S.
Bader, Jacqueline M. Regan and
John P. Stachniewicz — have
worked a collective total of 19
years at either IREPM or Weston
Jesuit, and thus bring a wealth of
experience and dedication to the
new Boston College School of
Theology and Ministry. Each has
a particular area of expertise and is
committed to working together in
the new school.
“Also bringing years of experience and commitment is Esther
Griswold, as the school’s librarian. She has already been working
closely with the Boston College
and St. John’s staffs on the new
library.” Inside the Outreach
Arrupe International Program volunteers like Jeff
Stokes (right) use creative methods — including bake
sales at football games — to raise funds and create
awareness of their group’s mission and activities
By Reid Oslin
Staff Writer
How does one of education’s
most traditional fund-raising strategies — the Saturday bake sale —
enhance the spiritual component
of an international social outreach
program?
Just ask Jeff Stokes ’08, a student
leader of one of the Arrupe International Program’s upcoming service
and education immersion trips to
Guatemala — and brownie baker
extraordinaire.
Stokes says student bake sales
supported by graduates and fans
attending Alumni Stadium football
games each fall are paying dividends
to the Arrupe program not only in
fund-raising terms, but also in helping to build a community identity
for the program participants.
Sponsored by Boston College’s
Campus Ministry, each of the 10
Arrupe programs involves 12 to 18
students and at least two faculty
and staff members who as a group
learn about and involve themselves
directly with people living in politically and economically marginalized countries of Central and South
America.
Each program also costs some
$25,000, making creative fund-raising a necessity for participants.
In addition to the football day
bake sales, Arrupe volunteers have
come up with a number of fund
raising ideas, including t-shirt sales,
a pancake breakfast, meal plan point
drives, a dormitory room cleaning
service and some old-fashioned letter-writing to family members and
friends to seek financial support for
the effort.
“Our bake sales before football games are especially effective,”
Stokes says. “These are usually done
at the beginning of the semester
because not all of the trip members
really know each other at that point.
You spend the night before or the
morning of the game actually baking with all of these people, and you
really start to build community with
the people you will be making the
trip with.”
With brownies and cookies ready
for sale, Stokes says that Arrupe program students find a willing consumer market at pre-game tailgate
parties. “We get a great reception
from alumni. A lot of the tailgates
have all of the food that they could
want and most of it is probably far
more delicious than what we are
selling,” he adds with a laugh.
“But while we walk around, we
are not just selling brownies, we are
able to let even more people know
what we are doing in the Arrupe
program, raise some awareness and
let people know that they are buying a lot more than just brownies.
“A good amount of alumni at
games,” Stokes adds, “are really interested in hearing more about what
we are doing rather than just buying
a brownie and having us move on.
They seem to be very receptive to
having a little bit of a conversation.”
Stokes, a theology and political science major from Wrentham,
Mass., will be making his second
trip to Guatemala during winter
break in January.
“It isn’t just a two-week trip, it
isn’t something you prepare for, go
on, and it ends. This is something
that sticks with you,” he says. “It
really helps shape the decisions you
make on an everyday basis on campus and also with the organizations,
professions and vocations that you
go into in the future.
“I came back a second time not
only to gain experience for myself,
but also to help other people gain
the experience that I had last year,”
Stokes says.
Kelly Sardon-Garrity, director of
the Arrupe International Programs,
says four students groups will visit
Guatemala, Belize and Nogales and
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Tijuana, Mexico, in January. Other
groups will travel to Ecuador, El
Salvador, Jamaica and Nicaragua
in the spring. Summer trips are
planned to Cuernavaca, Mexico
and Jamaica.
Each spring students apply for
the Arrupe program and those selected participate in a large kickoff
event to discuss solidarity in the
mission, logistics and fund-raising,
says Sardon-Garrity.
“Fund-raising is vital to make
the trips happen. But another focus is preparing to go on the trips
themselves – not just making sure
that we all have passports and all of
that,” he says, “but learning about
Guatemala or wherever they will be
working, learning about its history
and its economics.”
Groups meet weekly during the
semester leading up to the trip, and
meetings include prayer and reflection as well as education and travel
logistics.
“After the trip there is another
retreat with all of the groups,” Sardon-Garrity says. “They continue
to meet and even do some additional service here.
“It’s a very powerful experience,”
he adds. “When the group gets to
know each other, it becomes a really supportive community and we
really challenge each other to dig
deeper into what is going on in this
particular situation and how does it
affect my life?”
“It really helps to answer the
questions as students try to figure
out who they are, and as they discover that, layer the next question
on: Who are you called to be?”
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have thought about it who may
not be comfortable talking about
it with their peers. This provides a
place to explore what God may be
calling us to do, a place to discern.
It will be a very good resource for
BC students.”
Added senior Thomas Hofmann, a philosophy and English
major from Sausalito, Calif., who
is considering the priesthood, “The
commitment to Manresa House
shows that the BC administration
is taking an active step toward addressing a growing need on campus. There are many students asking questions about vocations who
haven’t really decided what they
want to do. This house gives us a
place to talk with others who are
considering the same possibilities.”
Hofmann was particularly impressed by the number of vocation
directors who were present at the
opening. “Their presence gave me
a picture of the Church that everyone considering a vocation should
have. Seeing all these people and
having conversations on Ignatian
spirituality, Franciscan spirituality,
is wonderful and will help me to
decide where I go from here.”
Sister Lisa Buscher, RSCJ,
who does outreach ministry for
the Religious of the Sacred Heart,
praised the establishment of Manresa House and the benefit it holds
for those hoping to attract Catholic
students to religious life. “I think it
is a great idea for bringing people
in the Church who want to talk
about their vocations and service
to God,” said Sister Buscher, who
lives in community with seven sisters on Beacon Street in Newton.
“It is an asset and a resource for all
of us, and we hope to tie into this
place as much as we can.”
Students, vocation directors and
colleagues alike offered universal
praise for Fr. Butler, whose blend
of enthusiasm and charisma make
him an ideal person to lead this
important effort.
“Fr. Jack is an absolutely wonderful priest whose energy is contagious,” said Moriarty. “What really
impresses me is that he looks at
each person to see how God is
working in their lives. He wants
to bring people to Christ, wherever they are. That is what attracts
people to him”
Campus Minister Jack Butler, SJ, director of Manresa House, talking with juniors
Mike Pratt and Jeremy Marks. (Photo by Frank Curran)
Added Kathleen Spellman of
BC Campus Ministry, “I can’t
think of anyone better for this
job than Jack Butler. He really
connects with students in a way
the rest of us can only strive for.
He is truly gifted and his efforts
will really help students and the
Church.”
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University Is Proficient in Promoting a Global Perspective
Local school takes
cue from BC’s Global
Proficiency Program
By Sean Smith
Chronicle Editor
A Boston College program is
the model for a local high school’s
newly launched initiative that
encourages students to cultivate
international and cross-cultural
perspectives via academics, travel,
service and other experiences.
Through the Global Competence Program, Needham High
School students can earn a certificate detailing activities — from
school coursework to volunteer
work — that broaden their knowledge of, and familiarity with, foreign languages and cultures.
BC provided inspiration for
the Needham GCP with its Global Proficiency Program, which was
established in 1999 as a means to
coordinate students’ involvement
in multi-cultural or international
studies. University administrators
also worked with Needham school
personnel on developing the program to best serve their students.
Affirming BC’s role in the
initiative, the Global Proficiency
Program creator, Assistant Dean
and Director for the Office of International Students and Scholars
Adrienne Nussbaum, attended the
formal launching of the Needham
GCP Oct. 3.
Needham High officials express
gratitude to BC for its outreach,
Assistant Dean and Director for the Office of International Students and Scholars
Adrienne Nussbaum at last month’s launch of the Needham High School Global
Competence Program.
direct and indirect, which they
say underscores the importance
of partnerships between higher
education institutions and area
public schools.
“We admired BC for developing this program years back
and asked, ‘Why couldn’t a
high school like Needham do
the same?’” says Needham High
School Principal Paul Richards,
a doctoral student at BC’s Lynch
School of Education. “BC gave
us the confidence as well as the
programmatic knowledge to make
it happen.”
Amy Goldman, who is directing implementation of the Needham GCP, adds, “It was wonderful to have the benefit of BC’s
insight as we worked to create a
program that would meet student
and community needs.”
The GPP-GCP connection
was forged in a somewhat circuitous way. Susan Bonaiuto, director of community education
and planning at Needham High
— and the wife of Boston College Bands Program Director Sebastian Bonaiuto — was part of
a school task force seeking to
foster international opportunities
for students. Although the group
had productive discussions about
the purpose and nature of international experiences, when its work
was concluded, she says, “I felt
things were still unresolved.”
Then the Bonaiutos’ daughter
Andrea, who at the time was in
the midst of her college search,
came upon the GPP while browsing the BC Web site. Andrea (now
a BC freshman) pointed it out to received certificates. These docuher mother, who immediately e- ments are added to the students’
mailed Richards. The school had undergraduate transcripts, detailfound the model it was looking ing their particular involvement in
for, Susan Bonaiuto says.
international studies.
In addition to consulting
Last year, the program received
with Nussbaum on fashioning a an award from the National AssoGPP-like program, school offi- ciation of Student Affairs Profescials invited Volunteer and Service sionals for best practices in camLearning Director Daniel Ponset- pus-based international programto to discuss criteria for choosing ming. In addition, Nussbaum says
service opportunities.
at least 23 colleges and universities
“With the globalization trend in the United States, Canada, New
in business, communication and Zealand, Taiwan and England and
other aspects of life,” Bonauito two Massachusetts high schools
says, “it’s becoming more impor- — including Needham — have
tant for young people to have used the GPP as a model or made
the intellectual, social and emo- substantial inquiries about it.
tional skills to work with persons
“What makes the GPP an
from different cultures and back- intriguing concept,” says Nussgrounds. We want kids to reflect baum, “is the student can inon what they see and
“We admired BC for tegrate different
hear, whether abroad
facets of their time
or at home, and inte- developing this program at BC — whether
grate it into a sophisyears back and asked, it’s a course in
ticated view of the
Arabic languages,
‘Why couldn’t a high say, a service trip
world in which they
live.
school like Needham do to Nicaragua, or
“The BC Global
helping with an
Proficiency Program the same?’” says Needham ESL program in
is definitely geared to
High School Principal Boston — into a
that kind of personal
holistic, comprePaul Richards.
development, and
hensive body of
we feel confident our
work.”
version of it will be beneficial for
“This helps shape the students’
Needham students.”
own view of his or her education
Nussbaum says the Needham and career path, which is valuinitiative reflects the ongoing suc- able in and of itself. But there’s
cess of the GPP — within BC a practical element: Prospective
and outside it. Anywhere from employers, or graduate programs,
500 to 600 students are regis- will look at the GPP certificate
tered in the GPP each year, she and transcript and get a better apsays, and about 225 to date have preciation of the student.”
From China to Chestnut
Hill, Their Bond Endures
SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP—The
Boston College Campus School
held its annual “Spirit Day”
earlier this month, and welcomed members of the BC
football team. In photo at left,
Thomas Claiborne ’10 signs a
poster for his new-found friend
Joseph Weiss as Kimberly
Phillips, part-time grad student
and teacher assistant, looks
on. Below, Campus School student Jane Xayaveth visits with
sophomore Pat Sheil and Campus School undergrad buddy
Michelle Lamy ’09.
Photos by Frank Curran
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each other when they both studied
chemistry at USTC, their friendship developed at Stanford University, where Gao started his PhD
studies in 1999 and Wang followed
a year later. Their labs were located
in the same building and they saw
each other on a weekly basis. When
Wang obtained his learner’s permit, Gao provided friendly driving
pointers.
It didn’t hurt that both men were
then dating the women they would
eventually marry – also classmates
from USTC – who had grown up
in the same hometown in China.
Gao’s wife, Fangxin Hong, and
Wang’s wife, Helen Zhang, eventually traveled to the US to earn
doctorates – Hong at UC Davis
and Zhang at UC Berkeley.
Following their graduation from
Stanford, both couples ended up
in southern California, where Gao
undertook his postdoctoral study
at the Scripps Research Institute in
San Diego, and Wang completed
his postdoc at the California Institute of Technology.
“We were both very busy – it
doesn’t take very long for you to
get buried in your research. But we
were able to stay in touch and our
wives stayed in touch,” said Wang,
whose wife is completing her PhD
studies in Berkeley and expects to
move to Boston early next year.
Gao’s wife is a biostatistician at
the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
While both scientists say it is
comforting to have a friend and
fellow countryman at their new
university, they aren’t necessarily alone. There are seven graduate students from USTC in the
Chemistry Department, creating
a small community within the
labs and classrooms of Merkert
Chemistry Center.
Chemistry Department chairman Vanderslice Millennium
Professor Amir Hoveyda said he
and his colleagues expect Gao
and Wang to play crucial roles in
the future of the department.
“Professors Wang and Gao
represent the very best of creative young minds in two of
the most exciting forefront areas
of research in modern science:
materials research and chemical
biology,” Hoveyda said. “We
fully expect them to not only
succeed in their ambitious plans
to further the frontiers of our
field and establish internationally
recognized programs, but also to
serve as the nucleus for the establishment of world-class institutes
in nanosciences and biological
chemistry in this university.”
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Postings
Bone marrow drive Nov. 27
University Health Services will
sponsor a bone marrow drive on Nov.
27 from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Those interested in participating may sign up
today from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in McElroy
Commons. Walk-ins also will be accepted.
For more information, contact Erin
Corsini at erin.corsini.1@bc.edu.
Optical scientist to speak
on art history
Charles Falco, a professor of optical
sciences at the University of Arizona,
will present the lecture “Perceiving
Images: The Separate Realities of
Scientists and Art Historians” tomorrow, Nov. 16, at 4 p.m. in Fulton 117.
[A reception will precede the event
at 3:30 p.m.]
Falco will discuss findings from
his collaboration with artist David
Hockney that optical tools such as
lenses and concave mirrors to project
images came into use by European
artists nearly 200 years earlier than
previously believed possible. These
discoveries have revealed new information in iconic images long studied
by art historians, Falco believes, and
open significant new areas for investigation.
The Falco-Hockney project has
drawn considerable media coverage,
including an hour-long BBC special
and a segment on CBS-TV’s “60
Minutes,” as well as more than 70
invited talks and public lectures in 10
countries.
For more information, call ext.24295 or e-mail michalcj@bc.edu.
Rajak visits campus Nov. 26
Tessa Rajak, a leading Josephus
scholar well versed in Greek and Hebrew, will give a talk on Nov. 26 from
6:30-9 p.m. in Higgins 310.
Currently a visiting professor in Judaic studies, history and classics at
Yale University, Rajak is the author of
Josephus: The Historian And His Society, regarded as an important reference work about the controversial
Jewish general who fought in the
First Jewish-Roman War of 66-73.
For more information, e-mail yonder.
gillihan.1@bc.edu.
Discussion on parish leadership
is Nov. 28
The Institute for Religious Education
and Pastoral Ministry and Church in
the 21st Century Center will sponsor
a talk, “The Hopes and Challenges of
Parish Leadership,” by Marti Jewell,
director of the Emerging Models of
Parish Leadership Project, on Nov. 28
from 7-9 p.m. in Gasson 100.
The Emerging Models of Parish
Leadership Project works with parish
leaders across the United States to
address challenges of 21st-century
parish life. Jewell will discuss his
observations and impressions about
the state of parish leadership, and
the outlook for local faith communities.
For more information, see
www.bc.edu/irepmce or e-mail
lambmb@bc.edu.
Thanksgiving break
All Boston College offices will be
closed for the Thanksgiving holiday
on Nov. 22 and 23, and will re-open
on Monday, Nov. 26.
Waiting for a New World, a New Life
Literary memoir traces a
young man’s journey to
the West, and freedom
By Sean Smith
Chronicle Editor
Sometimes, the very act of
writing an autobiography is autobiographical, as is the case with
the new literary memoir by Prof.
Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic and
Eastern Languages).
The year Shrayer first started
work on the book, 1996, saw
him begin his academic career as
a Boston College faculty member. When he finished the book
10 years later, Shrayer had just
entered another phase of his life,
fatherhood.
In Waiting for America: A Story
of Emigration, Shrayer recounts
another, earlier significant transition: the two-month period following his family’s departure from
their native Russia in preparation
for their journey from Europe
to the United States. Living in
Vienna and then in and outside
Rome as he and his parents awaited their US refugee visa, Shrayer
found freedoms, and complications, he had never known before,
especially in the realm of personal
relationships. He also experienced
the shock, thrill, and anonymity of encountering Western democracies, running into European
roadblocks while shedding Soviet
taboos.
Shrayer eschews familiar
themes — the new arrival’s travails in America; nostalgia for the
ancestral home; the misery and
loneliness of a refugee’s plight
— in favor of a more nuanced,
ultimately upbeat meditation on
the metaphorical as well as actual
passage immigration heralds.
“The book is, first of all, a
story about family baggage, about
the inescapability of family ties
and traps, and about the blissful
burden of memory which immigrants carry with them to the New
World,” says Shrayer, who will
present a reading from Waiting for
America on Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
in Devlin 101.
Shrayer also describes the book
as “a fragmented love story,” in
which he — a romantic 20-yearold poet — finds himself “torn
between women from the JewishRussian refugee community, who
bind [him] to their shared Russian
past, and European women, who
represent the alluring promise of
sexual freedom and who encourage fast-track assimilation.
“Waiting for America is, finally,
a memoir of emigration/immigration, of severance from Russia
that was never a true home to the
Jews.”
The book, his eighth, also represents a departure for Shrayer as
his first full-length literary work
written and published in English. Originally a writer of Russian
poetry and prose before gradually turning to fiction and creative
non-fiction in English, Shrayer
says he has had a longstanding
interest in memoir and autobiographical writing.
“I guess this sort of a book has
always been in me, and it was a
matter of letting it germinate and
come to fruition. I love hybrid
genres, and my challenge in this
book was to tell a story based on
documentary, remembered and
reconstructed past, in such a way
that it reads like a work of art.”
Shrayer’s academic writing
and scholarly projects tended to
limit the attention he could de-
“The book is, first of all, a story about family baggage,
about the inescapability of family ties and traps, and
about the blissful burden of memory which immigrants
carry with them to the New World.”
—Maxim D. Shrayer
vote to Waiting for America, but
about two years ago he decided
he needed to focus on completing
the work. “My wife was pregnant
with our first child, and I wanted
to finish the book and send it out
into the world,” explains Shrayer,
who says he completed much of
his final editing of the text with
his infant daughter Mira sleeping
on his chest. Copies of Waiting
for America arrived the day Shrayer and his wife, Karen Lasser,
brought their new daughter Tatiana home from the hospital.
Could Waiting for America
herald a new, more permanent
direction in Shrayer’s writing? “I
continue to find excitement and
pleasure in autobiographical and
memoir writing, and I am working on a book about growing up
in the Soviet Union,” he replied.
“Who knows, perhaps one day
I will write a story of becoming
American — when I turned 40
last summer, I had been living
in this country for half of my
life. Not too bad for a Jewish kid
from Moscow, is it?”
Protocol Viewed As Helping Address Hate Crimes
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of the issues that are out there,”
said committee co-chair Executive
Director of Institutional Diversity
Richard Jefferson. “At the same
time, we hope to help sort out
what hate incidents are, and what
they are not, and how these situations should be handled.”
A key facet of the protocol,
committee members said, is that
it distinguishes between two overlapping categories of hateful behavior: hate crimes and bias-motivated offensive conduct. An act
that does not meet the specific criteria of a hate crime — which the
protocol notes involves a police
investigation and is punishable
by criminal prosecution — may
nonetheless violate BC behavioral
standards and policies. Students
or employees accused of bias-motivated offensive conduct are subject to sanctions or disciplinary
action from the University.
“There have been occasions,”
said Horton, “when a person who
has been the victim of what he or
she believes to be a hate crime follows the procedures for reporting,
and an investigation finds that it ated the University’s willingness
was not in fact a hate crime, as to include student perspectives in
defined. Sometimes this can be a the discussions.
confusing, frustrating experience
“Overall, I believe the Protocol
for the person in question.
Review Commit“And if an intee was successful
cident
becomes
because it brought
“It’s important to
known to the wider
together a group
recognize that we
campus communiof people from difty, there is potential
ferent parts of the
did not create new
for misunderstandUniversity,
but
processes, but rather who were all inings to occur regarding the nature
terested and deterhave described ones
of the incident and
mined to develop
already in place.”
the University’s rea much needed
sponse. Our hope
—Sheilah Shaw Horton protocol,” she said.
is that, by making
“The range of viewthis protocol widely
points allowed us
available — as the
to look at the proprelude to a conversation across tocol with a much more holistic
the campus — we can work to vision. Thanks to the expertise of
prevent such confusion and frus- the people in the room, we were
tration, both for the individual able to explore everything from
and for the community.”
the legal issues and the judicial
Undergraduate Government of processes to the specific language
Boston College President Jennifer we would use. We have also reCastillo ’08, one of four student cently looked at it from a technorepresentatives on the committee, logical sense, since we have had
was generally upbeat about the the opportunity to see what it will
effort and added that she appreci- look like online.
“I am satisfied to know that
we went through a lengthy process, and we now have a document that outlines exactly what
should happen if a hate crime or
bias-motivated offensive incident
is reported. This clearly demonstrates that the University does
not tolerate these types of bias and
offensive behaviors from anyone
in our community – administrators, faculty, staff, and students
alike. “
Others who served on the
Protocol Review Committee included former Dean for Student
Development Robert Sherwood,
Residential Life Director Henry
Humphreys and Associate Director Justin Price, Boston College
Police Chief Robert Morse, AHANA Student Programs Director
Ines Maturana Sendoya, University Counseling Services Associate
Director Erin Curtiss, Campus
Minister Sister Mary T. Sweeney,
Africa and African Diaspora Studies Program Director Assoc. Prof.
Cynthia Young (English) and
Prof. Ramsay Liem (Psychology).
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PEOPLE
•A segment on WGBH-TV’s
“Greater Boston” on legislation
proposing changes in nursing staff
levels featured Assoc. Prof. Judith
Shindul-Rothschild (CSON) and
BC nursing students in Assoc.
Prof. Robin Wood’s Simulation
Lab.
•Assoc. Prof. Rev. Robert Imbelli
(Theology) offered comments to
the Boston Globe regarding the
nomination of Mary Ann Glendon as US ambassador to the
Vatican.
•Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Steen (Political Science) was interviewed
by USA Today, the Boston Globe
and the Associated Press regarding Mitt Romney’s presidential
campaign financing.
File photo
Newsmakers
bert’s now-ended run for the presidency in an ABCnews.com story,
and in an op-ed he wrote for the
Providence Journal that was later
reprinted in the (Raleigh) News
and Observer, the Bellingham Herald, the Lake Wiley Pilot and the
(Minneapolis) Star Tribune.
Publications
Steen
WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle” regarding Americans and household
debt.
•Assoc. Prof. Gil Manzon
(CSOM) discussed private equity
partners and taxation for a piece
in the Boston Globe.
•Prof. Carlo Rotella (English)
published a story in the November issue of Boston magazine on
the breakup of John Ruiz and
Norm Stone, Boston’s most successful boxing partnership [www.
bostonmagazine.com/articles/after_the_gloves_came_off/page1].
•Assoc. Prof. Robert Murphy
(Economics) was interviewed by
•Prof. Paul Lewis (English) discussed comedian Stephen Col-
Nota Bene
Two faculty members in the Lynch School of Education department
of counseling psychology recently have received several prestigious
awards from national psychological associations.
Augustus Long Professor of Counseling Psychology Janet Helms
was selected for the 2007 Distinguished Psychologist Award from the
Association of Black Psychologists. The director of The Institute for
the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, Helms earlier this fall
received the 2008 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research
in Public Policy from the American Psychological Association.
Assoc. Prof. Lisa Goodman has won the Bonnie R. Stickland and
Jessica Henderson Daniel Award for Distinguished Mentoring, as well
as the 2007 Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
from the APA Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She
also was named an APA Fellow.
Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Patricia A. Bando is one of four inductees
this year into the Massachusetts Hospitality Hall
of Fame. Sponsored by the National Restaurant
Association, the Hall of Fame was established
to recognize those individuals who have “exhibited extraordinary dedication to the hospitality
industry in Massachusetts.” Bando will be officially recognized at the annual Massachusetts
Hospitality Hall of Fame Awards Dinner to be
held this Monday in Boston.
The Chemistry Department has announced the 2007-2008 John
LaMattina Graduate Student Fellows in Organic and Organometallic
Chemistry:
Tricia May, who is in Vanderslice Millennium Professor Amir
Hoveyda’s research group, is examining new N-heterocyclic carbene
ligands for applications to asymmetric conjugate addition of alkyl- and
arylmetal reagents to b-substituted cyclic enones for the formation of
all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centers. The new Ag-NHC complexes allow access to medicinally important compounds of high enantiomeric purity that were previously unattainable.
A member of Prof. Marc Snapper’s research group, Zhen You has
focused on developing the kinetic resolution of hydroxyketones through
catalytic asymmetric silylation using a simple amino acid-based catalyst.
The new strategy significantly shortens the routes to various enantiomerically enriched hydroxyketones which are important chiral building
blocks for asymmetric synthesis. Josh Sieber is currently developing transition-metal-catalyzed conjugate allylation processes using allylboronates as nucleophiles in Prof.
James Morken’s research group. The LaMattina Graduate Student Fellowship was established in the
2005-06 academic year through the support of Chemistry Department
alumnus John L. LaMattina ’71 and his family.
•Center on Aging & Work CoDirector Michael Smyer was coeditor of the recently published
Changes in Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults: Assessment
and Intervention.
•Prof. Paul Lewis (English) published an article on anti-Bush
humor, “Take This President...
Somebody Please,” in Tikkun
magazine.
•Prof. Christoph Eykman (German Studies) published “Alltaegliche Dinge im philosophischen
und literarischen Schrifttum der
Moderne” in the journal Neophilologus.
Time and a Half
•Monan Professor of Law Daniel
Coquillette presented “Race and
Gender Discrimination at Harvard Law School” to the Harvard
University Nieman Fellowship
Program. •Adj. Assoc. Prof. Michael Noone
(Music) released “Missa Super flumina Babylonis,” a CD of sacred
music by the Spanish Renaissance
composer Frabcisco Guerrero,
featuring more than 30 Spanish
and British musicians conducted
by Noone at the end of a series
of concerts in the Cathedrals of
Andalucia.
•Assoc. Prof. Charles Morris (Communication) presented
“Hard Evidence: The Vexations
of Lincoln’s Queer Corpus” in
the College of Communication
Speaker Series at the University
of Texas.
•Prof. Kent Greenfield (Law) was
invited to speak at a national conference of business and government leaders on the “Future of
the Corporation,” held at Faneuil
Hall. He also was a member of
the panel discussion “Inequality
and the Eroding Middle Class” at
the University of North Carolina
Center for Poverty, Work and
Opportunity.
•Prof. Paul Lewis (English) presented a plenary lecture at the
Northeast Popular Culture Association conference at Clark University.
•Law School Associate Dean for
Students Norah Wylie and Assoc.
Clinical Prof. Alexis Anderson
gave a presentation to the New
England Law Clinical Meeting of
their work on the issue of accommodating physical and mental
disabilities in the classroom and
the profession. •Assistant to the Vice President
for University Mission and Ministry Timothy Muldoon presented
the inaugural lecture at the Center for Ethics in Community at
St. Vincent College in Latrobe,
Pa.
•Asst. Prof. Mary-Rose Papandrea
(Law) addressed the American
Academy of Appellate Lawyers at
their annual meeting in Boston
on the subject of “Legal Implications for the Blogosphere.”
CSON, Tufts Health Plan
Offer Teaching Fellowships
In a response to the national
shortage of nursing faculty, the
Connell School of Nursing has
joined with Tufts Health Plan to
establish the Tufts Health Plan
Teaching Fellowships — full
scholarships for an online nurse
teaching certificate program offered at Boston College.
The dearth of nursing faculty
has a direct impact on the shortage of nurses, says CSON Dean
Barbara Hazard. “According to
the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, nursing schools
turned away thousands of qualified applicants due to an insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites, and clinical preceptors.
Across the country, the faculty
vacancy rate is approximately 10
percent.”
This problem is expected to
worsen, adds Hazard, with the
anticipated wave of faculty retirements over the next five years.
To help combat this trend,
the Connell School has developed
a three-course Nurse Teaching
Certificate Program, designed for
nurses who have completed at
least 50 percent of their master’s
course work, and who wish to
have further academic preparation
as educators in clinical practice
or for teaching nursing in an academic environment.
Tufts Health Plan has agreed
to fully finance three students for
the Nurse Teaching Certificate
Program in the spring 2008 semester.
“I want to thank Tufts Health
Plan for their commitment,” said
Hazard. “I believe the teaching
fellowships will open up this
teaching program to students who
would not otherwise have taken
advantage of this opportunity.”
The deadline for applications is
Nov. 30. For more information,
go to www.bc.edu/teachingcertificate or call the Connell School of
Nursing Graduate Programs Office at ext.2-4928.
—Kathleen Sullivan
•Adj. Assoc. Prof. Drew Yanno
(Law) served as a moderator on
two panels, “Distribution Alternatives” and “How Did You Get
Your First Movie Made?” at this
year’s Austin Film Festival. He
is one of the founding members
of the festival’s Education Committee.
•Prof. Dwayne E. Carpenter (Romance Languages) has been asked
to participate as an education and
program advisor for an upcoming
exhibition on Jews and Christians
in medieval Spain at the Museum
of Biblical Art inNew York City.
•Clinical Prof. Daniel Kanstroom
(Law), director of BC Law School
Human Rights Programs, was invited to give a talk to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inter-University Committee on
Migration Studies.
Jobs
The following are among the most
recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources.
For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/offices/hr/:
Executive Director, Academic
Budget, Policy and Planning,
Office of the Provost/Dean Of
Faculties
Patrol Officer - Academy, BC
Police Department
Associate Project Director, Graduate School of Social Work
Technology Consultant, Law Library
Application Developer, Information Technology - Applications
Services
Staff Nurse, University Health
Services
Dean, Connell School Of Nursing
Security Attendant- 2nd shift,
Gate Attendants
Central Files/Data Assistant,
Prospect Development
Assistant Director, Annual Giving, Student & Alumni Participation
Human Resources Assistant
Research Technician, Physics
Department
Instrumentation Mechanic, Facilities Management - HVAC
Assistant Director, Annual Giving, Classes, Young Alumni
Associate Director, Merchandising, BC Bookstore - Mail Order
Receptionist/Staff Assistant, Office of the Provost/Dean Of Faculties
Director of Emergency Preparedness and Management, Office of
the Executive Vice President
Administrative Assistant, Center
on Aging and Work
Assistant Director, Center for
Retirement Research
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 15, 2007
READINGS • LECTURES •
DISCUSSION
November 15
•“Gays and Grays: The Story of
the Gay Community at Most Holy
Redeemer Catholic Parish in San
Francisco,” with Donal Godfrey,
SJ, executive director of University
Ministry, University of San Francisco, 7 p.m., Higgins 310. Call ext.26346, e-mail mormando@bc.edu.
•Lowell Lectures Humanities Series:
Reading by David Rieff, World
Policy Institute at the New School
for Social Research, 7:30 p.m., Devlin 101. See www.bc.edu/offices/
lowellhs/.
File photo by Associated Press
LOOKING AHEAD
November 16
•“Perceiving Images: The Separate
Realities of Scientists and Art Historians,” with Charles Falco, University of Arizona, 4 p.m. (reception
3:30 p.m.), Fulton 117, call ext.24295, e-mail michalcj@bc.edu.
BC winds up the regular season Nov. 24 at home against Miami.
November 17
•Massachusetts Foundation for the
Humanities Fall Symposium: “No
News is Bad News: The Role of the
Media in Our Democracy,” 12:305 p.m., see www.masshumanities.
org.
November 19
•“Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio
XXIV,” with Lino Pertile, Harvard
University, 7:30 p.m., Devlin 001,
see www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/bcdante.html.
•Weekly discussion: “Where Is
God?” 7:15-8:15 p.m., Women’s
Resource Center, McElroy 141,
through Dec. 20, call ext.2-3489,
e-mail quigley@bc.edu.
November 26
•Lecture by Tessa Rajak, Yale University, 6:30 p.m., Higgins 310,
e-mail yonder.gillihan.1@bc.edu.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS
November 22
•Thanksgiving Break. All University
offices closed until Nov. 26.
MUSIC • ART • PERFORMANCE
November 15
•Performance: “Stage Door,” Robsham Theater, through Nov. 17.
See www.bc.edu/robshamseason for
times, ticket information.
•“Naked Mask,” featuring literary
readings and art exhibit, 7:30 p.m.,
O’Connell House, e-mail solomoda@bc.edu.
November 18
•Boston College Flute Choir, directed by Judy Grant, 3 p.m., Gasson 100, see www.bc.edu/music.
ATHLETICS
November 16
•Women’s hockey: BC vs. Northeastern, 7 p.m., Conte Forum.
November 17
•Men’s hockey: BC vs. UMass, 7
p.m., Conte Forum.
November 18
•Men’s basketball: BC vs. Mercer, 2
p.m., Conte Forum.
November 21
•Men’s basketball: BC vs. Rhode
Island, 4 p.m., Conte Forum.
November 23
•Men’s hockey: BC vs. Northeastern, 7 p.m., Conte Forum.
November 24
•Football: BC vs. Miami, noon,
Alumni Stadium.
Full schedule of BC athletic events
available at bceagles.cstv.com/calendar/events/.
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
•“Sacred Space — Sacred Form,”
exhibition by Benjamin S. Cariens,
Bapst Library Art Gallery, through
Nov. 19. Call ext.2-4295, e-mail
kamandizzle@gmail.com.
•“Pollock Matters,” McMullen
Museum of Art, through Dec. 9.
Call ext.2-8100, e-mail artmusm@
bc.edu or see www.bc.edu/artmuseum.
For more on Boston College events, see
events.bc.edu or check BCInfo [www.
bc.edu/bcinfo] for updates.
The New Orleans Story,
In Verse and Prose
One of the most active chroniclers of post-Katrina New Orleans has
been poet, playwright, filmmaker, and educator Kalamu ya Salaam, who
is appearing at Boston College today and tomorrow.
Today at 4:30 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons,
Salaam will join New Orleans schoolchildren in presenting “The Crisis In
New Orleans Public Schools,” as part of the Lynch School of Education
Symposium Series.
Tomorrow, he will present his poetry about the Katrina diaspora and
life in the city since the hurricane’s devastation. The event, which also will
feature Salaam’s fellow New Orleans writers Ashley Jones and Christopher Burton, will take place from in Gasson 305 from 3-4:30 p.m.
Salaam was director of the Listen to the People oral history project
[www.kalamu.com/listen/], which includes video interviews with New
Orleans residents on their experiences in the disaster, including the New
Orleans City Council president, two firemen who worked throughout
the hurricane and a woman who spent five days atop an expressway. He
also has been involved in producing videos about New Orleans after the
hurricane, ranging from documentaries to fictional movies. In addition,
he co-directs Students at the Center (SAC), a creative writing program in
the New Orleans Public Schools.
Through it all, Salaam has continued to write prose and poetry about
New Orleans and its people, and taken on the role as an ardent advocate
for the city.
“Salaam has been at the forefront of efforts to attain a socially just
school system for all of New Orleans’s public school students,” says
Catherine Michna, a doctoral student in English who is co-organizing the
Nov. 16 reading. “Salaam and SAC co-director Jim Randels are known in
New Orleans and nationally for advocating neighborhood-based schools
and student-centered pedagogy.”
The symposium and reading are free and open to the public.
Prior to his Friday 3 p.m. appearance, Salaam, along with Jones and
Burton — both of whom are SAC staff members — will lead a workshop from noon-2 p.m. in Campion 139 at which they will discuss how
student-centered writing programs can facilitate radical change in local
school districts and city neighborhoods. Those interested in attending
must send e-mail to michnac@bc.edu.
—Sean Smith
A Global View of Higher Education
“Cost, Access, and Equity in Higher Education: American and International Perspectives” is the theme of the 2007 J. Donald Monan, SJ,
Symposium, which takes place Nov. 30 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Walsh
Hall first floor function room.
Cosponsored by the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program, the
Monan Symposium will be led by Monan Professor of Higher Education
Philip Altbach, director of the Boston College Center for International
Higher Education, and features keynote speakers Bridget Terry Long (Harvard University) and D. Bruce Johnstone (SUNY-Buffalo), as well as an
international panel of Fulbright New Century Scholars, including Claire
Callendar (University of London), Jane Knight (University of Toronto),
and Anthony Welch (University of Sydney).
Registration is required—e-mail kopellsa@bc.edu. A light lunch will
be provided.
BC SCENES
GRIMM REMINDER
A classic Grimm fairy tale came to musical life this past Sunday in
Gasson 100, with a staging of the 19th-century opera “Hansel and
Gretel,” written by German composer Englebert Humperdinck. The
performance, directed by part-time faculty members Ralk and Barbara Gawlick (Music), featured students of the Dalcroze School for
Music and Movement — including (below) Natasza S. Gawlick as
Gretel and Cecilia MacArthur as Hansel — of which Barbara Gawlick is director. Four BC students also took part in the production.
(Photos by Joan Seidel)