The Boston College
Chronicle
november 16, 2006-vol. 15 no. 6
University Addresses
Campus Race Issues
By Office of
Public Affairs Staff
CONTE DANCE FEVER—These young fans were feeling the beat during last Friday night’s Boston College-UNH
basketball game in Conte Forum. The BC men’s and women’s basketball team both began their seasons over
the weekend. (Photo by Frank Curran)
AT A GLANCE
Biologists aid major project on
genome sequencing (page 3)
Islam and the West:
Peaceful Co-existence?
Muslims are making a successful adaptation to
life in US and Europe, say BC political scientists
from Within.
Skerry is completing a book
about the estimated two million to
From the 9/11 attacks to war in three million Muslims in AmeriAfghanistan and Iraq to bombings ca and says that contrary to what
in Madrid and London, there has many people think, Muslims are
been plenty of material to support adapting socially and culturally to
the view that a clash of civilizations American society much as other
is afoot between Islam and the immigrants have.
Skerry’s research shows that
West.
But this month’s election of the Muslims are gradually taking on a
first Muslim to the US Congress pluralist perspective in America, in
highlights a reality that counters which they see themselves as one of
the alarmist thinking: Far from several religious denominations in
clashing with the West, significant society. So, too, are Muslims fitting
into American
numbers
congregationof Muslims
alism, with
have
and
“It’s the political tension
each mosque a
continue to
and conflict and competition
self-governing
be integrated
and self-supinto US and
between Muslims and nonporting instiEuropean
Muslims over questions of US
tution.
democracies.
It is inside
Boston
foreign policy in particular that
US mosques
College is
will be difficult to resolve.”
that Skerry sees
home
to
two politi—Peter Skerry Muslims truly
adjusting to
cal scientists,
American-style
Prof. Peter
democracy.
Skerry and
Asst. Prof. Jonathan Laurence, who Women, he says, are participants in
have studied Muslims in the West. US mosques – not full participants,
Their findings tend to challenge but a far cry from many Islamic
the sky-is-falling views laid out in countries where mosques are malebooks like Tony Blankley’s The dominated preserves and off-limits
West’s Last Chance: We Will Win to women.
“The role of women is one of
the Clash of Civilizations or Bruce
Bauer’s While Europe Slept: How the single most telling ways in
Radical Islam is Destroying the West
Continued on page 4
By Greg Frost
Staff Writer
Heights of Excellence: CSOM’s
John Gallaugher (above, page 5)
Church in the 21st Century
book series (page 6)
UPCOMING@BC
TODAY: Martin Luther King Memorial Committee, “Celebrating
Leadership,” 3 p.m., Jenks
Library, Gasson Hall
TONIGHT: Irish group Fingal in
concert, 7 p.m., Connolly House
FRIDAY: “Spread the Bread,”
11 a.m., Campus Green
THROUGH SUNDAY: “Macbeth,”
Robsham Theater
See page 8 for more, or go to
events.bc.edu
Facing what college administrators nationwide have called an upswing in racial tensions on university campuses, Boston College has
seen an intense discussion on issues
of race take place this fall, sparked
by two race-related incidents and
hindered at times by what BC administrators call widespread — and
sometimes inaccurate — speculation among community members.
This week, in the wake of an
assault on a black male student
that took place in the early hours of
Nov. 11, the administration sought
to quickly alert the University community of the incident, while affirming the University’s commitment to both racial equality and
due process.
“As a university and an institution committed to Jesuit, Catholic
beliefs and values, Boston College
expects members of its community
to treat one another with respect,
dignity, and compassion,” said
University President William P.
Leahy, SJ, in a statement to the BC
community. “Acts of prejudice, hatred, and discrimination especially
conflict with Boston College’s institutional standards and ethos, and
such behavior cannot and will not
be tolerated here.
“Violations of campus conduct
policies will be investigated, and
parties found responsible will receive appropriate sanctions. It is
important that incidents be reported and that due process be followed
so that we can maintain the rights
and integrity of our campus community.”
Fr. Leahy concluded: “I ask that
all of us rededicate ourselves to
helping Boston College live up to
its heritage and ideals.”
Vice President for Student Affairs Cheryl Presley also released a
statement outlining the facts of the
Nov. 11 incident in which a 28year old black male student was assaulted by three white males. With
assistance from the Boston College
Contined on page 3
Catholic Tradition Project
Sparks Faculty Interest
By Sean Smith
Chronicle Editor
Boston College’s faculty-oriented initiative on the Catholic intellectual tradition continues to take
shape, with two luncheon discussions next week that are expected
to build on the program’s inaugural
events held last month.
In addition, a faculty committee to be formed by Provost and
Dean of Faculties Bert Garza, MD,
is slated to assume oversight of
the program that was co-sponsored
initially by the Provost’s Office and
the Church in the 21st Century
Center.
Organizers say the early returns
on the CIT events have been positive, and hint at the program’s
potential as an important forum
for the University. But while CIT
might be useful in illuminating
the Catholic dimension of BC’s
academic endeavors and campus
social or political issues and controversies, organizers emphasize
that its larger purpose is to aid
BC’s overall mission as a Jesuit and
Catholic university.
Asst. Prof. Gregory Kalscheur,
SJ (Law), a member of the C21
committee that worked on the CIT
program, said, “People can, and do,
have different ranges of opinions
about how the Catholic intellectual tradition is best reflected by
BC’s academic and non-academic
activities. However, it is vital for us
as faculty to have shared knowledge
of what that tradition is so we can
proceed.
“This means examining a set
of questions: What is the role of
religious traditions in fostering a
more humane world? How can
the Catholic intellectual tradition
inform not only Catholics, but also
other people of good will? What
resources must Catholics bring to
light in the academic community
in order to address the neuralgic
issues of our time?”
In fact, such questions have
often voiced by faculty, say Fr.
Kalscheur and another C21 coorganizer, Prof. James Keenan, SJ
(Theology), and for that reason
the CIT initiative appears to have
struck a chord, judging by its reception thus far.
The two luncheon discussions
kicking off the program in October drew 175 faculty, representing
disciplines and fields including the
humanities, law, nursing, management and the natural and physical
sciences, the organizers said. A talk
by Asst. Prof. Stephen Schloesser,
SJ (History), with additional commentary by professors Ali Banuazizi (Psychology) and Ray Madoff
(Law), held to summarize and respond to points raised in the luncheons, was similarly well-received.
Continued on page 4
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 16, 2006
AROUND
AROUND
CAMPUS
Beyond the GPA
Students in the Advanced
Public Relations course taught
by Communications Department
Counselor Roger Woolsey have
been working on a “class project”
that counts for something a lot
more than grades.
Woolsey’s students are working
this semester on a public relations
and general awareness campaign
for Medical Missions for Children (MMFC), a local nonprofit
organization that provides surgical and dental services to poor
and underprivileged children and
young adults throughout the
world. The undergraduates, operating as “Eagle PR,” are responsible for everything in the MMFC
campaign from media relations to
event planning to compiling press
kits to designing invitations to
booking venues.
“These students are having a
unique experience,” says Woolsey.
“They’re gaining invaluable, firsthand experience working in public relations, and yet they are also
volunteering their time to helping
a worthy cause in keeping with
the Jesuit tradition under which
Boston College was founded.”
So far this semester, Eagle PR
has raised about $3,600, Woolsey
says: Students sold MMFC Tshirts during Parents Weekend,
Tattoo you?
Prof. Sharlene Hesse-Biber
(Sociology) is well known for
her research and commentary
on women’s eating disorders and
other aspects of self-esteem and
body image. But her expertise also
extends to what might seem an
unlikely topic in the academic
realm: body art and tattoos.
Hesse-Biber recently appeared
on the “CBS Sunday Morning”
report “Tattooed America: The
Rise Of Skin Art,” which discussed Americans’ growing fascination with tattoos (the program
cited a study which said 36 percent of Americans between the
ages of 18-29 have a tattoo). She
noted that the art of tattooing
goes back more than 5,000 years
— as evidenced by discoveries at
mummy sites from Egypt — and
among Americans has long been
associated with societal outcasts,
until its recent fashion ascension.
So Chronicle felt compelled
to ask Hesse-Biber if she herself
sports a tattoo.
“That has been a burning question amongst my students and
some of my colleagues: Does she
or doesn’t she? Only the tattoo
organized a special denim sale on
campus and, last Thursday, held
a social at the Baseball Tavern on
Boylston Street. Their campaign’s
grand finale will be a Dec. 16
black-tie dinner at Westin Copley Place, with admission $250 a
ticket.
Each week the students are
filmed as they discuss their experiences with the project, and
the five-minute video blogs are
placed online at homepage.mac.
com/eaglepr/EaglePR/Menu3.
html so family, friends and others
interested can follow the MMFC
PR activities and learn about upcoming events and fundraising
opportunities.
Eagle PR participant Steve
Dool ’07 said, “I have always
felt and seen the impact and the
importance of serving the community. I am very excited that I
am able to help others and change
lives by working with Medical
Missions for Children, and participate in such an important experience within my studies.”
Woolsey adds, “The organization has shown tremendous faith
and trust in the students. They’ve
let them handle all the details. It’s
just a great opportunity for students to take on very meaningful
responsibilities.”
—SS
artist might know, if in fact I did
elect to have a tattoo. I could also
have a temporary tattoo.”
While she may not have directly answered the question,
Hesse-Biber did offer an insight
into the decision-making process
a tattooee might undergo.
“What type of tattoo? Where
to place the tattoo on my body?
What is its significance, if anything? Do I want to be part of the
biker culture? Does the tattoo signify my transition from one social
status or developmental milestone
to another? Did this tattoo represent breaking away from my family of origin? “If I were to take a gendered
approach to tattooing, I might in
fact think of soft images. What
about a butterfly? What about
a flower? If I wanted to resist
traditional gendered pressures, I
might in fact have a tattoo that depicted images of power and social
control: What about a dragon? A
dagger? The tattoo would be devoid of soft colors — baby blues,
pinks or even mellow yellows. I
would go for bold colors, crimson
or black.
“Decisions, decisions.”
—SS
Lee Pellegrini
Deserving winners
The annual W. Seavey Joyce,
SJ, Community Service Award
had two deserving co-winners this
year, seniors Adrienne Andry and
Cynthia Loesch.
Each year, the Joyce Award
honors those students who have
shown leadership in community
service, advocacy, political or other work to improve the City of
Boston or the plight of its more
underserved people.
Andry, who was profiled in the
Oct. 19 Chronicle, has been active
in the BC Volunteer and Service
Learning Center and done stellar
work with the Commonwealth
Tenants Association in Brighton
— where, as a youngster, she herself was tutored by BC students.
Loesch has served as president
of the Codman Square Neighborhood Council in her native
Some Good News for Student
Papers Heights, Observer
Two Boston College student publications, The Heights and
The Observer, have received prestigious national awards.
The Heights was named a finalist for the 2006 Overall Newspaper Pacemaker Award by the Associated Collegiate Press,
while three Heights staffers garnered individual honors in the
competition.
This year marked the first time The Heights was selected as a
finalist for the Pacemaker, the most prestigious award given to
college newspapers. The awards were chosen by editors of the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Layout Editor Sonny Fabbri ’07 won the Design of the Year
Award and also shared a third-place design award with Assistant Layout Editor Mary Lentowski ’08. Former Heights Sports
Editor Kevin Armstrong ’06 received an honorable mention for
Sports Story of the Year.
In addition, www.bcheights.com was named one of 11 finalists nationwide for the Online Pacemaker award as the best
college newspaper Web site, the third straight year The Heights
has been selected.
The Observer was named “Paper of the Year” by the Collegiate Network at their annual Editors Conference. The Collegiate Network is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that
promotes public awareness on the politicization of American
college and university classrooms, curricula, and student life
by supporting independent college newspapers that provide an
alternative voice on campus.
The award was given in recognition of The Observer’s news
coverage during the 2005-6 academic year, notably the controversy over the University’s awarding of an honorary degree to
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Commencement. Media
outlets including the Fox News Channel program “Hannity
& Colmes” and the Boston Globe as well as several online news
sources referred to The Observer’s coverage of the issue, noted
the Collegiate Network.
—Office of Public Affairs
Correction: Desmond Obituary
The Oct. 19 obituary for John F. Desmond did not
include the name of Mr. Desmond’s brother, Michael,
among the next of kin. Chronicle regrets the omission.
Dorchester and taken on a number of community issues and
concerns. [She also was profiled
in Chronicle; see www.bc.edu/bc_
org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v14/n3/
loesch.html.]
Both received their awards at
a Nov. 9 ceremony in St. Mary’s
Hall. In the photo above, Andry
(second from left) and Loesch
(second from right) chatted with
VSLC Director Daniel Ponsetto,
at left, and Boston City Councillor Charles Yancey.
The Boston College
Chronicle
Director of Public Affairs
Jack Dunn
Deputy Director of
Public AFFAIRS
Patricia Delaney
Editor
Sean Smith
Contributing Staff
Greg Frost
Stephen Gawlik
Reid Oslin
Rosanne Pellegrini
Lauren Piekarski
Kathleen Sullivan
Photographers
Gary Gilbert
Lee Pellegrini
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Chronicle
november 16, 2006
BC Contributes to Genome Project
Research on sea
urchins seen as helping
boost understanding
of human genetics
Prof. David Burgess (Biology) and doctoral candidate Matthew Hoffman, at computer, are among BC researchers taking part in the international Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing Project. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
in decoding the sea urchin genome because the animals share a
common ancestor with humans.
In fact, fruit flies and worms are
genetically more distant from sea
urchins than are humans.
The SUGSP consortium was
divided into teams, and Burgess’
team was involved in annotating
the sea urchin’s cytoskeleton genome, which deals with mitosis,
cell division and cell movements
in development.
That group was led by BC
biology doctoral student Matthew
Hoffman, a member of Burgess’
lab. Another key member of the
team was Wheaton College Professor Robert Morris, who is currently on sabbatical at BC. Several
other Wheaton faculty were part
of the group as was Andrew Leone, ’06, a former Honors biol-
ogy student who is studying to be
a physician at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School.
Burgess’ lab also collaborated
with Prof. Richard Hynes and Dr.
Michael Whittaker at MIT on the
genes encoding the sensory system
found in hearing and vision.
“Because the cytoskeleton genome is so well known in mammals, including humans, and in
lower invertebrates, including the
fruit fly, having the genome of
an organism that is evolutionarily
close to the vertebrates allows for
better understanding of the evolution of genes encoding functional
domains in these key cytoskeletal
proteins,” Burgess said.
Specific findings of Burgess and
his fellow researchers will appear
in a special issue of the journal
Developmental Biology on Dec. 1.
New Web Design Debuts This Sunday
Boston College will launch a
new Web design and navigation
system this Sunday, Nov. 19, in
tandem with the introduction of a
Web publishing tool called Collage.
The design will make its debut on
a selection of highly trafficked Web
sites and was developed by the Office of Marketing Communications
(OMC).
The changes in design were developed following studies of, among
other things, successful sites at US
News top-50 universities and of traffic patterns on Boston College’s
more than 180 departmental sites.
“Our goals were to improve aesthetics, accommodate new uses of technology, adopt best practices, and
allow users to more easily find the
information they’re looking for,”
said Hallie Sammartino, OMC’s
deputy director and the project’s
leader.
A site-wide license for Collage
was purchased in December 2005
following a review of commercial
products by a committee of faculty, administrators, and Information Technology Services (ITS)
staff. The authoring program was
selected, said ITS Web Support
Manager Scott Olivieri “for its ease
of use, rich set of features, stability,
and sound architecture.”
Collage will replace WebIt as
the University-supported Web
HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
All Boston College administrative offices will close at
3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22, for Thanksgiving break.
Offices will reopen on Monday, Nov. 27.
Administration Discusses
Race-Related Events
By Greg Frost
Staff Writer
Prof. David Burgess (Biology) and other Boston College
researchers are co-authors of a
major genome sequencing paper
published as the lead article in
the Nov. 10 issue of the journal
Science.
Burgess and members of his
lab are part of an international
consortium that decoded and analyzed the genome sequence of a
male California purple sea urchin,
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
The Sea Urchin Genome
Sequencing Project (SUGSP)
Consortium, led by the Human
Genome Sequencing Center
at Baylor College of Medicine
(BCM-HGSC) in Houston and
by researchers at Cal Tech in Pasadena, comprised 240 scientists in
11 countries who spent two years
analyzing the genetic code of the
marine species.
Sea urchins are echinoderms
(Greek for “spiny skin”), marine
animals that originated more than
540 million years ago and include
starfish, brittle stars, sea lilies and
sea cucumbers. Following the
great extinction of animals 250
million years ago, the modern
sea urchins emerged as dominant
echinoderm species.
Scientists had been interested
development tool. WebIt will be
maintained through the summer of
2007, said Olivieri.
Sunday’s launch will take place
on Web sites that include the Boston College home page, BCInfo, AZ, About BC, Undergraduate Admission, the Office of the Provost,
the College of Arts and Sciences
dean’s office, Research Administration, the Connell School of Nursing, the Woods College of Advancing Studies, Robsham Theater and
the Office of Public Affairs. A site
for parents of undergraduate students also will be launched.
A second phase of conversion
to the new design is underway,
and participants include the University Libraries, the Law School,
the Church in the 21st Century
Center and the Boisi Center for
Religion and American Public Life.
This phase is expected to be completed in early December.
Based on commitments from
other academic and administrative units, ITS has developed a list
— which can be viewed at webtech.
bc.edu — of Web sites that will be
converted in December and January. Workshop training in Collage
is now being offered through ITS
on a bi-monthly schedule, and site
managers who wish to arrange for
training and to schedule a conversion to the new publishing system
and design can do so by email to
scott.olivieri.1@bc.edu or by calling
ext.2-8460.
The new design is the first full
scale change in the Boston College Web look and navigation since
2001.
Power Shutdown Set for Nov. 24
A planned electrical shutdown on Friday, Nov. 24, will affect a small
portion of Main Campus, the University’s Facilities Management department has announced.
The shutdown will enable workers to install new electrical switching equipment in the Devlin Hall underground electric vault. The only
buildings affected by the outage will be Gasson, Fulton and Lyons halls,
which will only have emergency back-up power from the generators for
egress lighting and for life safety equipment.
Boston College administrative and academic offices will be closed that
day in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
For more information on the shutdown, contact Electrical Foreman
Joe Ducie at ext. 2-3051.
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Police Department and Student Affairs personnel, the victim was able
to identify the prime suspect, also
a BC student, who was arrested by
BC Police.
“During the course of the investigation,” Presley said, “both the
victim and the suspect told police
that the assault was not racially
motivated. Regardless of the motivation, however, it is a glaring
example of reprehensible conduct
that is unacceptable to all members
of the Boston College community.
My staff is working diligently to address these issues.”
The suspect was immediately
suspended from the University and
faces criminal charges in Brighton
District Court. The two other suspects were also issued summary
suspensions and will face criminal
charges in court as well.
The assault has added to racial
tensions on campus this year, which
administrators from Student Affairs,
Human Resources, the President’s
Office and other departments are
addressing, Presley said.
Even as efforts to respond to racial concerns at BC have continued,
letters in student publications and
flyers distributed around campus
“have contained several inaccuracies that have exacerbated tensions
and that need to be addressed,” said
Presley.
One major source of tension
concerned an Oct. 12 argument
and fight between several black and
white female students. Although in
the course of the incident one student was found to have used racially
insensitive language and words that
“conflict with the standards of what
we expect of our students at Boston
College,” the act does not constitute
a hate crime and should not be
characterized as such, said Presley.
Presley also explained that two of
the students — both claiming to act
in self-defense — were sanctioned
by the University for fighting. The
rumor that two students of color
were assaulted on campus is a “misleading” characterization of what
occurred that evening, Presley said.
After a thorough review of the
incident by Student Affairs, Presley
said, sanctions were issued against
all the students involved. Specific
details regarding the punishments,
however, could not be revealed owing to federal privacy laws, she said.
Presley pointed out that BC,
in accordance with the Campus
Safety and Security Act, releases
an annual report of serious crimes
“Acts of prejudice,
hatred, and discrimination
especially conflict with
Boston College’s institutional standards and ethos, and
such behavior cannot and
will not be tolerated here.”
—Fr. Leahy
in and around campus, including
those “involving bodily harm that
appear motivated by racial or other
unlawful bias.” The report is mailed
to all BC employees and students
and is available from the Office of
the Legal Counsel.
In response to requests from students and several faculty, Student
Affairs has been working with Human Resources and the Executive
Vice President to devise an extensive hate crime/incident reporting
protocol. That work is expected
to be announced later this month. Boston College Chief of Police
Robert Morse is also reviewing his
department’s response to the Oct
12 incident in the hope of improving its overall effectiveness. “We need the constructive support of all members of the BC
community to address the current
climate on campus,” said Presley.
“I hope that you will enable us to
do our jobs based on your experience and in accordance with our
training, and that you will work
with us in resolving these important
issues.”
BC Student-Athlete Graduation
Rate Again Among the Best
Boston College has one of the
top four graduation rates in the
nation for its student-athletes, according to federal graduation rate
data released last week by the
NCAA.
BC, Bucknell, Duke and
Northwestern had graduation
rates of 90 percent or better for
all student-athletes from the freshman class of 1999-2000. Federal graduation rates are calculated
over a six-year period for each
incoming freshman class.
“We are very proud to be
among the top four universities in
America for student-athlete graduation rate,” said Director of Athletics Gene DeFilippo. “We take
great pride in the fact that our
student-athletes are able to balance their time effectively between
academics and athletics. This is a
tribute to our coaches and support
staff, but mainly to our studentathletes, who work just as hard in
the classroom as they do on the
playing field.”
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Researchers Eye Islam-West Relations
Aloysius and Agnes Lugira. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
BC Theologian,Wife to
Receive Archdiocese Honor
By Reid Oslin
Staff Writer
Since coming to the United
States from their native Uganda in
1977, Adj. Assoc. Prof. Aloysius
Lugira (Theology) and his wife
Agnes have been spiritual and organizational pillars for hundreds of
their countrymen who fled to the
Boston area to escape the political
turmoil in the heavily Catholic
African nation.
In recognition of the Lugiras’
years of devotion to the Ugandan
Catholic community in this area,
the Archdiocese of Boston has selected the couple as winners of
the 2006 Bishop James Augustine
Healy Award for effective leadership and service within the black
Catholic community.
The Bishop Healy Award will
be presented to the Lugiras on
Saturday by Boston Archbishop
Cardinal Sean O’Malley, OFM,
Cap., at a banquet to be held in
their honor in Randolph.
The award is sponsored by the
Archdiocesan Office of Cultural
Diversity.
“Even after 1985 when the situation in Uganda changed for the
better, some of us were committed
to stay here,” Lugira says. “When
we thought about staying in this
new community of ours, the first
thing we should do was to get ourselves organized.
“Most of the Ugandan people
in the Waltham area are refugees.
We try at least to keep in close
touch with these people and initiate them in how to live in the
United States.
“My wife and I found ourselves
as the elders in the region, so we
were bombarded with questions,
which we were expected to address,” he says.
Thanks to the Lugiras’ efforts,
the Ugandan Catholic community
was assigned to St. Joseph’s Parish
in Waltham, a city that is home
to a large number of Ugandan
nationals. When St. Joseph’s was
closed, the faith community was
moved to Sacred Heart Parish in
Waltham.
“Aloysius and Agnes have helped
bring the community of Ugandans
within the Archdiocese together
for various religious celebrations
and cultural events,” says Lorna
DesRoses, director of the Cultural
Diversity office. “They also helped
the former Office of Black Catholics come up with the celebration of
the Ugandan Martyrs which is held
every June and they have worked
closely with the Black Catholic
Choir, teaching them a lot of the
traditional songs that are sung in
remembrance of those martyrs.”
Lugira says upwards of 200
Ugandan Catholics attend the
special monthly Masses that are
celebrated for the community at
Sacred Heart Church. More than
500 attend the June 3 Ugandan
Martyrs Feast Day mass each year,
he notes.
The Lugiras, who live in Woburn, are also active in their local
parish, St. Mary’s in Winchester,
where they have been involved
in religious education, the parish
council, the church choir, the social
justice committee and numerous
other parish-sponsored activities.
Lugira is the founder and president of Winchester’s annual Black
History month celebration that has
been held in the town since 1993.
“Aloysius and Agnes are a wonderful bridge between the Black
Catholic community, whether it is
the African Diaspora, or the Ugandan community and the Archdiocese as a whole,” DesRoses says.
“They are just wonderful folks,
very energetic and very, very dedicated.”
Before coming to the United
States, Lugira had been chair of the
Religious Studies and Philosophy
department and Dean of the College of Arts at Makerere University
in Kampala.
Lugira joined the Boston College faculty in 1980, teaching a
single course in the former Black
Studies Program. He became a
part-time faculty member the following year and promoted to fulltime adjunct in 1995. He teaches
courses on religions in Africa.
The Lugiras are the second
members of the Boston College
community in as many years to
win the Bishop Healy Award.
Campus Minister for Liturgical
Arts Meyer Chambers won the
honor in 2005.
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which mosques and Muslims are
changing in America, adapting to
America,” he says.
Because US mosques are not
owned by the state, as they are in
many Islamic countries, American
Muslims are also gaining experience
in self-government. Setting up and
funding their own religious institutions gives them a stake in society,
he says.
But these positive trends do not
mean there aren’t potential difficulties looming, Skerry says. If
anything, he says American Muslims may well use the knowledge
they gain of the democratic process
to advocate for causes that many
Americans might find offensive
or, at the minimum, objectionable
– such sympathy and as support for
Palestinians, including Hamas, or,
as evident last summer, for Hezbollah. As a result, Muslim-American
loyalty to the US has been and will
continue to be questioned.
“It’s the political tension and
conflict and competition between
Muslims and non-Muslims over
questions of US foreign policy in
particular that will be difficult to
resolve,” he says.
Although he has focused on a
different region – Europe –Laurence also expresses a kind of cautious optimism regarding the future
of Muslims in the West.
Laurence has written a new
book with French historian and
political scientist Justin Vaisse that
tries to paint a portrait of the five
million Muslims living in France.
At the same time, the book, Integrating Islam: Political and Religious
Challenges in Contemporary France,
aims to debunk some misconcep-
tions – many of them
exacerbated during
last November’s riots
– about the French experience.
“A lot of people
assume that French
institutions are a bad
match for integrating
minorities because the
French insist upon
a universal sense of
citizenship that regulates religious identity
in parts of the public sphere. There’s an
image of inflexibility,”
Laurence says.
“What we try to
show is that in fact
there has been a lot
of evolution in terms
of policies toward the
Muslim minority, especially in terms of
religious recognition and making
serious attempts to ensure that integration goes relatively smoothly
– and that gets it over the inevitable
bumps in the road,” he says.
French politicians have been
taking seriously the question of
integrating Muslims politically for
at least 15 years, and while there
have been some successes – notably
the creation in 2003 of a French
Council for the Muslim Religion to
open channels of communication
between the government and its
Muslim minority – Laurence says
the process should be accelerated
where possible.
Laurence notes that discrimination against French Muslims
remains high and economic conditions are tough, with the un-
Asst. Prof. Jonathan Laurence (Political Science): “(There) has been a lot of
evolution in terms of policies toward
the Muslim minority, especially in terms
of religious recognition and making
serious attempts to ensure that integration goes relatively smoothly – and that
gets it over the inevitable bumps in the
road.” (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
employment rate among French
Muslims running at around twice
the national average. These factors,
in part, account for the alienation
that has allowed for a rise of militant
Islamism among some members of
the French minority.
Nonetheless, Laurence says there
is reason to think that Muslims in
France will continue to feel increasingly attached to their country of
residence.
Faculty Committee to Oversee CIT Program
Continued from page 1
“For the beginning, we wanted
to give faculty a chance to share
their views, questions and concerns
about the Catholic intellectual tradition and its relation to BC,” said
Church in the 21st Century Center
Director Timothy Muldoon. “Fr.
Schloesser was then able to give
some substance to the preliminary
discussions, and lay out some further areas of inquiry to the faculty.”
Fr. Keenan said the CIT program is intended as a “sustained
critical discourse” that in turn can
enhance discussions in the wider
University community on Catholicrelated matters.
“From time to time, we see
events or issues on campus that
generate debate and reflection on
Catholic beliefs and practice. But
too often these conversations seem
to take place outside the faculty domain. The hope is that this program
can create a context for faculty to
engage one another on topics that
relate to BC’s Catholic dimension.”
One such faculty member,
Assoc. Prof. Rev. Robert Imbelli
(Theology) — who called the CIT
program “a welcome beginning”
— said the discussions thus far had
been enlightening and offer a means
to identify areas of disagreement
or uncertainty about BC’s JesuitCatholic character.
“One thing that has emerged
that is of concern to me,” he said,
“is when some faculty make a separation between Catholic and Jesuit,
and I think that is false to the Society of Jesus. I think the tendency on
the part of faculty and even students
to dichotomize between Catholic
and Jesuit does not do justice to the
Jesuits and does not enable us to
ascertain what is distinctive about
BC’s heritage.”
Assoc. Prof. John McDargh
(Theology) said the initiative evoked
for him a talk at BC 10 years ago
by University of Chicago Professor
Martha Nussbaum, during which
she spoke about the “sense of deliberative richness” that enhances
Catholic universities. Retaining such
a quality, according to Nussbaum,
impels Catholic universities to address at every level the non-Western
world, the history of racism in the
United States, the needs of women
in every culture and the condition
of gay and lesbian persons, he said.
“The ground for that conversation has been creatively laid over
the past decade by initiatives such
as the Office of Mission and Ministry and the Intersections program,”
said McDargh, “but the CIT proj-
ect seems to me to be the most
promising effort to date to bring
to a very big table all members of
the BC faculty and administration
— not just those who self-identify
as Roman Catholic — to consider
how the Catholic and Jesuit heritage provides resources and warrants
for extending that ‘deliberative richness’ in all the directions that our
moment in history requires of us.”
Garza said the faculty committee, which will be appointed in early
December, will “chart the course of
future conversations in terms of specific goals, timetables, development
of feedback mechanisms and advice
for implementing what we learn
and linking with the C21 group
that will be working with staff and
possibly students.
“Boston College is an outstanding institution, one that has a very
significant role to play in higher
education because of its Jesuit and
Catholic character,” added Garza.
“It’s important for our faculty to
develop a common understanding
and expectation of how the Catholic intellectual tradition or traditions
can foster the highest standards and
level of achievement we are capable
of in our roles as teachers, mentors,
and researchers.”
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 16, 2006
HEIGHTS
OF
EXCELLENCE
Passion and Principle
Photos by Lee Pellegrini
CSOM’s Gallaugher loves being ‘a geek’ - and being a teacher
“Heights of Excellence” profiles faculty members who, through their exemplary teaching and research, contribute
to the intellectual and spiritual life of
Boston College
By Reid Oslin
Staff Writer
Yet few of his students know that John Gallaugher
endures a significant and lifelong vision deficiency that,
without corrective lenses, makes him legally blind; that he
once dropped out of college because none of his teachers
knew his name; or that he once did stand-up comedy in
Boston nightclubs.
“[With John] the enthusiasm and passion all comes
out,” notes CSOM Associate Dean Jeff Rinquest, a friend
and colleague since Gallaugher joined the BC faculty in
1997 after receiving a doctorate from Syracuse University. “John is clearly one of the most passionate people
that I know.
“But it’s not just the show with him. It’s the preparation, it’s the love of the field. That’s what comes
through.”
This passion stems in part from his commitment to
his own alma mater. “I was changed very positively by
my own experience at Boston College,” says Gallaugher,
a 1988 College of Arts and Sciences graduate who added
an MBA from CSOM two years later. “As an alumnus I
feel a particularly strong sense of responsibility to give my
students a top-notch experience at BC.”
Gallaugher’s life was not always gilded with the
privilege of faculty status. He was given up for adoption
at birth, taken into foster care by Eileen and Maurice
Gallaugher, a Canadian couple who were raising three of
their own children in Wayne, NJ.
He calls himself “just a geek,” but Assoc. Prof. John
Gallaugher brings passion and an innovative approach
to his Carroll School of Management classroom, and
beyond.
Gallaugher, a member of CSOM’s Information Systems department, certainly has geek credentials. A recipient of the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, he
was the first professor at Boston College to make all of his
lectures available to students via iPod or MP3 computer
downloads, a strategy he says significantly boosts learning,
especially among students in his four freshman sections.
monitor, just a printer that was attached to the keyboard.
He keeps in touch with hundreds of his former stuThe computer was tucked away in another room and was
dents via a blog, “The Week in Geek,” and alumni often
about the size of two refrigerators. At the time it was very
return to guest lecture in his classes.
high tech – most schools didn’t have that.”
Gallaugher also organizes and oversees the popular
Gallaugher knew that he wanted to continue his educa“TechTrek West” field study courses for undergraduate
tion after high school, but he didn’t know where, and there
and graduate students and co-leads the MBA program’s
were no college graduates in his family to offer advice. His
“International Management Experience: Asia” course.
first college experience was not a good one.
These programs provide CSOM students with the op“At the end of my freshman year, there wasn’t a single
portunity to meet face-to-face with top high tech
professor who knew my name,” says Gallaugher,
executives in Silicon Valley and the Far East.
who declines to name the institution he attended.
The self-confessed geek is a bundle of energy in
“I thought ‘This isn’t what college is supposed to
his classroom, constantly on the move, bounding
be like.’”
up stairs to ask or answer questions and engaging
So Gallaugher took a year off, writing software
his students in the topic of the day. His office hours
for small businesses in a computer dealership and
find a constant queue outside his door with students
taking courses at a local state college. A friend at
seeking his advice and information on academic and
Tufts invited him to visit, and he took the opportuprofessional pursuits.
nity to look at schools in the area.
“I want to love my job the way Professor Gallaugh“When I visited BC, the students seemed to
er loves his,” says Sophie Farrell, a College of Arts and
love it here. They were genuinely enthusiastic about
Sciences senior who has taken several of Gallaugher’s
the University and I knew this was where I wanted
courses and participated in last spring’s TechTrek.
to go.”
“He always has enough going on to drive one
While at BC, Gallaugher had enough positive
person crazy, but he would never close his door to
student experiences to fill an admissions office viewa student. When he tells you he is here to help you
book. “I came to BC thinking the only languages I
with career advice or just to have conversations about
wanted to study were programming languages,” he
the newest technology, he really means it. He shows a
says. “By the time I left, I’d chosen to study Spanish
dedication to Boston College and to his students that
in Spain and Russian in the Soviet Union.”
is incredible.”
He served as a residence hall assistant and also
Assoc. Prof. John Gallaugher (CSOM) with (L) Eric Procopio ’09 and Paul Santora ’08: “I
“John Gallaugher is plugged into the ever evolving want my students to see that we have high expectations for them in the Carroll School,
participated in PULSE program social service projtechnology landscape and brings a voltage of enthu- and I think most are up for that challenge. I’ve been impressed.”
ects, an experience he strongly recommends to
siasm both into the classroom and into professional
students. “PULSE was an eye-opener. I served a
relationships with business leaders, students and alumni,”
community
of Southeast Asian refugees, people who had
Doctors thought he would be severely developmentalsays Paul Springer ’00, an executive at Amazon.com.
escaped
Communism
to come to the United States. I
ly delayed and placed him in a birth defects clinic where
Springer, like a number of Gallaugher’s former sturealized
hearing
some
of
their experiences that I had never
he spent the first five months of his life. “My best guess is
dents who hold executive positions in high technology
had
a
truly
bad
day
in
my
life. These people had really
what looked like a serious mental handicap was probably
firms, often returns to campus to deliver classroom lecstruggled.”
just my poor eyesight,” he says. “So much for the doctors!
tures on the latest industry trends to Gallaugher’s underAfter getting his undergrad degree in computer sciences,
I guess that it turns out that some really smart people can
graduate classes.
Gallagher
went immediately into BC’s MBA program, and
sometimes be really wrong.”
“John encourages students to think simultaneously
during
those
years he served as graduate student manager
Gallaugher was eventually diagnosed with severe nearthrough the lenses of a technologist and a CEO,” Springof
Murray
House
at that time, studied Russian (he volunsightedness, nystagmus and developing macular degenerer says. “He brings the real world into the classroom.”
teered
as
a
Russian
interpreter at Beth Israel Hospital) and
ation, but he downplays his poor vision. “I wear contact
met
his
future
wife,
Kim, also a BC student.
lenses instead of glasses – super-thick lenses are more
His
clever
wit
and
engaging personality made him a
distorting. I tilt my head sometimes, and from a distance,
natural
comedian.
To
take
a break from his business studsome people may think I am not looking straight at them
“It’s not just the show with him,”
ies,
he
would
often
emcee
campus events and perform at
because one eye is stronger than the other. Without my
open
microphone
comedy
shows at various Boston night
contacts I am legally blind, but with them I read and use
says a colleague of Gallaugher.
spots.
He
wrote
his
own
material:
“Dukakis jokes, Gorthe computer at a decent distance. The only real limita“It’s the preparation, it’s the
bachev
jokes,
topical
humor,
nothing
raunchy” he says.
tion is not driving, and in Boston that’s not much of a
“The
jokes
are
too
old
to
tell
now
–
past
their expiration
problem.”
love of the field. That’s what
date.”
A father of two himself, Gallaugher credits his parents
comes through.”
Gallaugher’s on-stage talents earned him an offer to
with helping him find his calling. “My parents were
take
part in the “Comedy Riot”, a Boston comedy club
wonderful,” he says. “I was so blessed. Ours wasn’t a colcompetition
that rewarded the winner with a professional
lege family. Dad was an electrician and Mom worked the
“I want,” says a student, “to
contract.
He
declined the “Comedy Riot” invitation, optnightshift in a plastics factory. In fact, neither my mother
ing
instead
to
sharpen his Russian in a summer program
nor oldest brother graduated from high school, but they
love my job the way Professor
at
Bryn
Mawr
College. The eventual “Riot” winner was
always encouraged me to find something that I was interGallaugher loves his.”
another
young
Boston
comic, Joe Rogan, who today is the
ested in and to pursue that.”
host
of
the
NBC
television
show “Fear Factor.”
What he found was computers.
“I’m
glad
I’m
not
asking
people to eat worms for a liv“The first computers I got to program were in our
junior high school. I remember it didn’t even have a
Continued on page 8
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 16, 2006
Postings
Lecture on Islamic architecture
is tonight
Bernard O’Kane, professor of Islamic
art and architecture at The American
University in Cairo, will present the
lecture “Islamic Architecture: The
Triumph of Color” tonight at 7 p.m. in
Devlin 101.
In addition to publishing numerous
books and articles, O’Kane was the
project director of a DVD-ROM database of monumental epigraphy in
Islamic monuments in Cairo, and was
editor of Treasures of the Islamic
Museums in Cairo.
His talk is being sponsored by the
McMullen Museum of Art as a companion event to its current exhibition,
“Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the
David Collection, Copenhagen.”
Event to discuss laity and
church governance
The Institute for Religious Education
and Pastoral Ministry and Church
in the 21st Century will sponsor
the Annual Ministry Renewal Day
tomorrow, Nov. 17, with the theme
“A Common Calling: Laity and the
Church Governance.”
Speaking at the event, which begins
at 9 a.m. in Gasson 100, will be Lynn
Jarrell, OSU, JCD, associate director
for canon law at the Legal Resource
Center for Religious, and Prof. Rev.
Michael Himes (Theology).
For more information, call ext. 28057.
Concert features British composers
Music by renowned British composers Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger
and Ralph Vaughan Williams will be
on the program for “The British Are
Coming!,” a concert to be presented
tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Gasson 100 by
the University Wind Ensemble.
The ensemble, which last month
marked its first anniversary, is the
parent organization for a number
of other mixed and like-instrument
chamber ensembles on campus,
including woodwinds, brass and
percussion.
Irish history expert to discuss
Easter Rising
Peter Hart, an associate professor
of history at Memorial University
in Newfoundland, will present the
lecture “What Did the Easter Rising
Really Change?” on Nov. 20 at 4 p.m.
in Connolly House.
Hart has researched and written extensively on Irish history, in particular
the Irish struggle for independence
from Britain and subsequent religious, social and political conflicts.
His talk is presented as part of the
Center for Irish Programs and Irish
Studies Program “Ireland and the
20th Century” lecture series.
Workshop on identity theft
prevention Nov. 29
Senior Internal Auditor Shay Atar
will present an interactive session,
“Identity Theft, Fraud, and Ethics:
A Guide to Protecting Yourself and
Boston College,” on Nov. 29 from 1011:30 a.m. in the McElroy Conference
Room.
Atar will discuss types of identity
theft and fraud, and the ethical issues involved, and offer help on
protecting information at work and
home.
The workshop is offered through the
Employee Development Program. For
more information, see www.bc.edu/
offices/employeedev/.
Book Series Builds on Work of C21
Four books related to pressing
issues facing the Catholic Church
in the United States will be published by the Church in the 21st
Century Center at Boston College
this month.
The four volumes — which
represent a collaboration of eminent contributors, both clergy and
lay, from across the nation and
representing a broad spectrum of
disciplines — address issues of sexuality and the Church, the handing
on of the faith to the next generation, the contemporary priesthood,
and the challenges of practicing
Catholic faith in diverse contemporary cultures.
Edited by members of the Boston College faculty, who are also
contributors, the books are derived
from programs presented as part of
the University’s Church in the 21st
Century initiative, which began in
2002 as a response to the clergy
sexual abuse crisis.
Since its inception, C21 has
drawn more than 36,000 people
to some 220 events, while bringing
to campus numerous nationally
and internationally noted speakers — ranging from bishops and
other clergy to politicians, pundits,
writers and academics, among others — to campus to address the
most critical issues facing the contemporary Catholic Church in the
United States.
“The book series represents our
attempts to reach a wide audience
beyond academia,” said Church in
the 21st Century Center Director
Timothy Muldoon. “Our hope
is to show concerned Catholics
that Boston College is a place that
not only thinks about the challenges facing the Church today,
but also hopes to be a resource for
those who seek practical solutions
to those challenges.”
The volumes being published
this month are Sexuality and the
US Catholic Church: Crisis and Re-
Church in the 21st Century Center
Director Timothy Muldoon: “Our hope
is to show concerned Catholics that
Boston College is a place that not only
thinks about the challenges facing the
Church today, but also hopes to be a
resource for those who seek practical
solutions to those challenges.”
newal, Handing on the Faith: The
Church’s Mission and Challenge,
Priests for the 21st Century and Inculturation and the Church in North
America.
These new publications are part
of a C21 book series, edited by
Vice Provost for Faculties Patricia
Deleeuw and Prof. James Keenan,
SJ (Theology), that debuted last
year with Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context: Learning from
the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic
Church, the first book to provide a
broadly interdisciplinary approach
to understanding the leadership
crisis in the Catholic Church in the
wake of the sex abuse scandal and
how it was handled.
Sexuality and the US Catholic Church was edited by Monan
Professor of Theology Lisa Sowle
Cahill, Law School Dean John
Garvey and Jesuit Institute Director T. Frank Kennedy, SJ, and is
based on C21 events that focused
on topics such as sexuality and
the social sciences, sex and marriage, celibacy, and homosexuality,
BC Is ‘An Exemplary Employer’
The Massachusetts Governor’s
Commission on Employment of
People with Disabilities has recognized Boston College as an “Exemplary Employer” for the University’s
Supported Employment Program,
which affords people with disabilities the chance to work at BC.
In a letter to Vice President
for Human Resources Leo Sullivan announcing the honor, Daniel
Condon, staff director of the commission, cited BC’s stellar record
of employing and retaining people
with disabilities and in exceeding
the “reasonable accommodation”
requirements under the state and
federal law. BC was one of 12 employers to receive the award.
The Supported Employment
Program, which began in 1987 and
is managed through the Boston
College Campus School, currently
employs 24 workers who serve in
campus cafeterias and libraries, the
BC Bookstore, Mail Services and
other areas. The state-funded pro-
gram offers jobs and training to developmentally disabled adults from
the Boston area, who are referred
by the state Department of Mental
Retardation and the Massachusetts
Rehabilitation Commission.
“This program affords people an
opportunity to get in to the flow of
things and many of them function
at a very high level,” said Sullivan.
“Some of our longest serving service
people are a part of this program.”
Sullivan praised Campus School
Program Coordinator Mary Brown,
who oversees the program, and
Campus School Principal Donald
Ricciato for their efforts.
Brown returned the praise: “Leo
has been instrumental in this success. He has gone above and beyond
to help make this succeed.”
She also lauded the various BC
department heads and managers
who have helped encourage workers with disabilities to succeed in
their roles at BC.
—Stephen Gawlik
among others.
Assoc. Prof. Rev. Robert Imbelli
(Theology) edited Handing on the
Faith, which draws on materials
presented at the 2004 conference
of the same name. The event discussed how Catholic parents and
families can communicate a deeper
spiritual, intellectual and practical
understanding of Catholicism to
the next generation without many
of the supports and characteristics
found in the close-knit Catholic
communities of bygone eras.
The June 2005 forum on the
Catholic priesthood held at BC is
represented in Priests for the 21st
Century, edited by Theology professors Donald Dietrich and Rev.
Michael J. Himes. Topics at the
conference included the priest as
sacramental minister, the priest
post-Vatican II, the priest as pastor, the rights of priests, the priest’s
relationship to the bishop, and ordained and lay ministries, among
others.
Inculturation and the Church in
North America, edited by BC Jesuit
Institute Director T. Frank Ken-
nedy, SJ, includes contributions
by Fr. Kennedy and BC colleagues
Flatley Professor David Hollenbach, SJ, Assoc. Prof. Mary Ann
Hinsdale, IHM (Theology), and
Adj. Prof. Francis Sullivan, SJ (Theology), as well as Catholic University of America faculty members
John Beal and Dean Hoge, Mark
Massa, SJ, of the Fordham University Curran Center, and University
of Notre Dame theologian Natalia
M. Imperator-Lee.
Next spring will see the release
of the series’ next volume, which is
edited by Boston College Magazine
Editor Ben Birnbaum, the executive director of the Office of Marketing and Communications. This
collection, which is on the theme
of hope, differs from the previous ones in that its contributors
include not academics but prominent Catholic writers.
For more information about
Boston College’s Church in the
21st Century Center, see www.
bc.edu/church21/.
—Office of Public Affairs
WELCOME ADDITIONS
Asst. Prof. Jason Kingsbury (Chemistry)
PhD, Boston College
Research interests: Synthesis of molecules
Courses: Modern Methods in Organic Synthesis
Kingsbury’s research involves designing new methods for the chemical
synthesis of useful strained small molecules, work that has potential implications for advances in medicine and environmental protection. Kingsbury
made Boston College history in 1998 when he became the first BC graduate
student to win a prized three-year Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. His other honors include a National Institutes
of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship and an Outstanding Graduate Student
Award from BC.
Asst. Prof. Eric Dearing (LSOE)
PhD, University of New Hampshire
Research interests: Child development within impoverished and dangerous
contexts; parenting and parent-child relationships; self-regulatory processes
Course: Family, School and Society
A faculty member in the Lynch School of Education program in developmental and educational psychology, Dearing focuses on child development
within poor families and neighborhoods, and in particular on the family
processes that transmit the developmental risks of poverty to children, and
that help protect children from these risks. He is a former postdoctoral fellow
in biological and developmental psychiatry at the Judge Baker Children’s
Center of Harvard Medical School, and his work has appeared in publications such as Child Development, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
and Journal of School Psychology.
Assoc. Prof. Amy Hutton (CSOM)
PhD, University of Rochester
Research interests: Effective corporate disclosure strategies; policy changes
taken in response to Regulation Fair Disclosure and Sarbanes-Oxley; role of
reputation building in voluntary corporate disclosures; roles of various capital
market intermediaries and regulators in determining market values of company stocks
Courses: Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation, Financial Reporting
and Disclosure
Before joining the Carroll School of Management faculty, Hutton taught
at the Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business Administration and the
Harvard Business School. Her research on financial analysts earned her an
appointment to the Congressional review board on the Securities Industry
Association’s “best practices for equity research.” She has been published
in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Accounting Review and the
Harvard Business Review, among others. She also serves on the advisory
board and the Audit and Finance Committee of the National Industries of
the Blind.
“Welcome Additions,” an occasional feature, profiles new faculty members at
Boston College.
—Sean Smith
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 16, 2006
Newsmakers
•Prof. Juliet Schor (Sociology)
discussed the cost of the modern
trend toward frequent buying
and discarding of clothing in the
cover story of Los Angeles City Beat
magazine.
•An essay by Prof. Carlo Rotella
(English) on the revitalization of
Providence, RI, was published by
the Washington Post magazine.
•Brennan Professor of Education
Andy Hargreaves was quoted
by Newsweek for a story about
increased pressures facing first-graders.
•Prof. Walt Haney (LSOE) was
quoted by the Sacramento Bee for a
story on ninth-grade dropout rates,
and by the New York Times regarding the College Board.
•Assoc. Prof. Michael Russell
(LSOE) spoke with the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram about the scoring of
standardized test essays.
•Prof. Robert Bloom (Law) was
quoted by the Boston Herald regarding a grand jury in the Big Dig.
•Prof. George Brown (Law) spoke
with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
regarding public corruption investigations.
•Center on Aging and Work CoDirector Michael Smyer, dean of
the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, was quoted by Newsday
regarding retirement issues. Center
co-director Assoc. Prof. Martha
Pitt-Catsouphes (GSSW) offered
remarks to the Wall Street Journal
on the value of older workers.
•Lynch School of Education
Research Associate Damian Bebell
PEOPLE
was interviewed by the Berkshire
Eagle about a technology-in-theclassroom laptop program in local
schools.
Honors/Appointments
•Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett (Psychology) was the recipient of the
Career Trajectory Award presented
by the Society for Experimental
Social Psychology.
Publications
• Assoc. Prof. Lisa Cuklanz (Communication) co-published “Television’s ‘New’ Feminism: PrimeTime Representations of Women
and Victimization” in Critical
Studies in Media Communication.
•Rattigan Professor Emeritus John
Mahoney published a review of
“Coleridge’s Melancholia: An
Anatomy of Limbo” in European
Romantic Review.
Grants
•Lynch School of Education Prof.
Ina Mullis and Research Prof.
Michael Martin: $300,000, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement,
“Design, Manage and Implement
TIMSS 2007.”
•Connell School of Nursing Associate Dean Patricia Tabloski:
$73,168, Department of Health
and Human Services, “Advanced
Education Nursing Traineeship”;
$190,549, Department of Health
and Human Services, “Advanced
Practice Palliative Care Program.”
Difficulties with Measurement:
RES.”
•Prof. Lawrence Scott (Chemistry): $185,000, US Department of
Energy, “High Temperature Chemistry of Aromatic Hydrocarbons.”
•Prof. David Burgess (Biology): $150,000, National Science
Foundation, “Role and Regulation
of Early Cell Polarity in Sea Urchin
Embyos.”
•Boisi Center For Religion and
American Public Life Director
Prof. Alan Wolfe (Political Science): $135,652, Smith Richardson Foundation, “Gambling and
the American Moral Landscape.”
•Prof. Uzi Segal (Economics):
$101,004, National Science Foundation, “Are Universal Preferences
Possible? Calibration Results for
Non-Expected Utility Theories.”
•Prof. Zhifeng Ren (Physics):
$53,780, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, “Synthesis and
Characterization of PbTe and PbSe
Nanoparticles and their Nancomposites.”
•Prof. Scott Miller (Chemistry):
$45,976, National Institutes of
Health, “Asymmetric Alkylation
via Chiral Nucleophilic Catalysis.”
Suzanne Camarata
•Institute for
Scientific Research
Research Physicist
David Webb:
$32,000, Office
of Naval Research,
“Accommodation
of CME and Space
Weather Aspects
of the SECCHI
Experiements for
the STEREO Mission.”
•College of Arts
and Sciences Dean
Joseph Quinn:
$30,000, The
Wieler Family Foundation,
“Wieler Faculty
Research Fund.”
Millis Schools Director of Pupil Personnel Services Suzanne
Genest ‘75, MEd ‘93, speaks at a Lynch School of Education reception held in Gasson 100 Oct. 27 to honor graduate
students who are former or current Sharp Scholars, Bank
of America Scholars, Bradley Fellows, Donovan Scholars,
and members of the Urban Catholic Teacher Corps. Also attending the event were representatives of participating area
schools and of the foundations and corporations supporting
urban education programs.
•Prof. Robert
Faulkner (Political Science): $30,000, Lynde and
Harry Bradley Foundation Inc.,
“Support of the Institute for the
Study of Politics and Religion.”
•Prof. John Michalczyk (Fine
Arts): $25,000, Foundation for
Moral Courage, “Gulag Documentary.”
Time and a Half
•University Historian Thomas H.
Jobs
Nota Bene
Prof. Francis Parker, SJ (CSOM), has been named a fellow of the
British Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors for his consulting work
in Bermuda and is one of only 15 Americans named to Britain’s most
distinguished consulting organization. Fr. Parker is a long-time government consultant for Bermuda and teaches the course Doing Business in
Bermuda. He was asked to offer a eulogy at the recent funeral of a Bermudan mayor, Jay Bluck, held in the country’s National Cathedral.
•Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic
and Eastern Languages) published
“The Shoah in Soviet Popular
Imagination: Rereading Anatoly
Rybakov’s Heavy Sand” in Jews and
Slavs. Vol. 17: The Russian Word in
the Land of Israel, the Jewish Word in
Russia.
•Prof. Ana Martínez-Alemán
(LSOE) presented “Faculty Labor,
Productivity and the Gender
Question” and moderated a panel
discussion on the “Philosophy of
Education” and the “Empirical
Dissertation” at the New England
Philosophy of Education Society
Annual Meeting in Framingham.
•Prof. Beth Casey (LSOE):
$194,659, National Science
Foundation, “Helping to Even the
Odds for Girls in STEM Fields:
Understanding the Basis for Girls’
John P. Manoussakis, a part-time
member of the Philosophy Department, was one of only two representatives of American universities to
attend the Ninth Plenary Meeting
of the International Joint Commission on the Theological Dialogue
between the Orthodox Church and
the Roman Catholic Church held
earlier this year.
The event, held in Belgrade, was
regarded as an historic and important development in the ecumenical
dialogue between the two churches.
During the meeting, Manoussakis — a Greek Orthodox priest who
Fr. Manoussakis with Cardinal Kasper.
earned a doctorate in philosophy
from BC — met with Cardinal Walter Kasper, prefect of the Pontifical
Council on Christian Unity, who referred to Boston College as “an asset
for our Church.”
O’Connor presented “The Athens
of America, Boston 1825-1845” at
the Brighton branch of the Boston
Public Library and the Thayer
Public Lilbrary in Braintree.
•Third Cook, Dining Service
•Utility Worker, Dining Service
Fr. Neenan presents the Distinguished Alumnus Award to Tomás MacAnna.
For decades, he’s been synonymous with Dublin’s worldfamous Abbey Theatre — and
with Irish theater in general
— winning a Tony Award and
numerous other plaudits. Now,
Tomás MacAnna has a new honor to his credit: a Boston College
Distinguished Alumnus Award.
MacAnna was presented with
the award by Vice President and
Special Assistant to the President
William B. Neenan, SJ, at a ceremony held Oct. 25 in Dublin,
organized by the Boston College
Centre for Irish Programs-Dublin. Also on hand was Executive
Vice President Pat Keating, Center for Irish Programs Executive
Director Thomas Hachey and
BC Centre-Dublin Academic
Director Michael Cronin.
In 1984, MacAnna worked
with late BC Irish Studies Program co-founder Adele Dalsimer to help create the BC
Abbey Theatre Summer Workshop, which during its 18 years
brought more than 300 BC students to Dublin for academic
lectures — many of them by
MacAnna himself — and practical training in various aspects
of theater.
MacAnna also was a visiting director at BC during the
1985-86 academic year, and
supervised the production of
a twin bill at Robsham Theater, “Cathleen Ni Houlihan”
by William Butler Yeats and
Lady Gregory, and T.H. Nally’s
“The Spancel of Death,” a longlost play from the 1916 Easter
Uprising that was rediscovered
by Dalsimer.
•Food Service Worker. Dining
Service
•Administrative Assistant, University Advancement
•Sales Assistant, BC Bookstore
•Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
•Staff Assistant, Custodial, Facilities Management
•Receptionist/Staff
School Of Nursing
Assistant,
•Assistant Program Director,
Graduate School of Social Work
•Assistant/Associate
Director
Alumni Giving, Western Region,
University Advancement
•Administrative Assistant, University Relations
•Custodian, Third Shift, Temp
Pool, Facilities Management
•Personnel Officer, Employment
Office, Human Resources
For more information on employment at
Boston College see www.bc.edu/bcjobs
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
november 16, 2006
LOOKING AHEAD
Nov. 17
•“Spread the Bread: BC’s Harvest
for Hunger,” Campus Green,
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. see http://
www.ugbc.org for details.
Nov. 20
• Multi-Faith Thanksgiving
Celebration, noon, Heights Room
of Corcoran Commons. All are
welcome.
•“What did the Easter Rising
Really Change?” Peter Hart,
4 p.m., Connolly House, call
ext.2-3938, email: irish@bc.edu
• Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio XVI,
7:30 p.m. Devlin 101.
Nov. 29
•Lowell Lectures Humanities
Series presents Jennifer Haigh,
7:30 p.m., Devlin 101, call ext.
2-3705, email paul.doherty.1@
bc.edu.
MUSIC• ART• PERFORMANCE
Nov. 16
•“El Norte” 4:30 p.m., Devlin
216, e-mail:levensond@bc.edu
•“Afternoon of Shakuhachi and
Koto Music #9,” 4 p.m., Yawkey
Center Function Room, email:
koto@jtnw.com.
Frank Curran
READINGS•LECTURES•
DISCUSSIONS
Nov. 16
•Lecture by Genaro Fabian Gregorio, Pastoral Social, 12:30 p.m.,
Campion 235, email: levensond@
bc.edu.
•“Celebrating Leadership,”
3 p.m., Honors Library Gasson
Hall 112, call ext.2-4551, email:
grealipa@bc.edu.
•“Crossing the (Indian) Color
Line: A Family Memoir” with
Philip Deloria, 4:30 p.m., Gasson
305, email: rotellca@bc.edu.
•“Making a difference: Lessons
from Peru and Urban America”,
4:30 p.m., Devlin 008, call ext.20740, email: mackayli@bc.edu.
Nov. 28
•“Music in the Afternoon” presents BC Chamber Music Society,
4:15 p.m., Gasson 100, call ext.
2-6004.
The BC men’s and women’s basketball
teams will be in action at Conte Forum during the coming week.
•“Islamic Architecture: The
Triumph of Color” with Prof. Bernard O’Kane, 7 p.m., Devlin 101,
call ext.2-8100, email: artmusm@
bc.edu.
•Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance
Workshop and Lecture Series with
Randal Bays, James Keane, and
Dáithí Sproule, 7 p.m., Connolly
House, call ext.2-0490, email:
connolsb@bc.edu.
•“Macbeth” directed by Stuart J.
Hecht, 8 p.m., runs through Nov.
18, ext.2-4002, email: principi@
bc.edu.
Nov. 17
•The University Wind Ensemble
Presents “The British Are Coming!” 8 p.m., Gasson 100, call
ext.2-3018.
Nov. 19
•Boston College Flute Choir, 3
p.m., Gasson 100, call ext. 26004.
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
•“We Are Still Here” O’Neill
Library Lobby, 3rd Floor, through
Feb. 16, hours: Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. - 1 a.m., Friday 8 a.m.
- 11 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. - 10
p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. - 1 a.m.
•“Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from
the David Collection, Copenhagen” hours: Monday-Friday 11
a.m.-4 p.m., weekends: 12 noon
to 5 p.m., for more information
call (617)552-8587 or email
artmusm@bc.edu.
•“Francis Xavier: Jesuit Missions
in the Far East” in the Burns
Library, through Dec. 3., hours:
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through
Friday, call ext.2-3282.
•“My Monster is in Safe Keeping:
The Samuel Beckett Collection
at Boston College” Irish Room
and Fine Print Room, through
Jan. 31, 2007, hours: 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday, call
ext.2-3282.
ATHLETICS
Nov. 17
•Women’s Basketball vs. North
Carolina Central, 7 p.m., Conte
Forum.
Nov. 18
•Football vs. Maryland, noon,
Alumni Stadium.
BC Experiences Inspired Gallaugher
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ing,” he quips. “I know that I have
a much better job than Joe Rogan,
but he’s probably making more
money than me.”
After toiling in Moscow for what
he says was “maybe the lowest starting salary of any American MBA,”
he returned to the US to marry Kim
and then worked on software projects for Alcoa in Pittsburgh. The
experience of “learning new things
and sharing that with others,” he
says, rekindled his interest in teaching at the college level. He and
Kim wound up at Syracuse, where
he won several teaching awards as
a graduate student in information
systems, and then BC called to offer
him a job.
“This is the place where great
faculty, now my colleagues, inspired
me to teach,” he says. “And, I get
an opportunity now to work with
amazing students who just keep
getting better every year. They are
wonderful.”
Gallaugher has an unusual
teaching assignment this semester:
leading four sections of the re-cast
CSOM core course Computers in
Management that he co-teaches
with faculty from the Computer
Science department. Gallaugher’s
role is to offer a first course in management through the lens of technology. Computer Science faculty
teach hands-on Excel skills during
the second half.
“Teaching freshmen is new
for me, but I’ve really enjoyed it.
They’re a blast,” he says. “I push
them really hard, but they seem
excited about the material. Maybe
just a few haven’t yet settled into
the reality of how they are going
to be challenged on campus, but
most have. And if you’re going to
be shocked into working harder,
freshman year is the best time for
that to happen.
“I want my students to see that
we have high expectations for them
in the Carroll School, and I think
most are up for that challenge. I’ve
been impressed.”
In the coming weeks, Gallaugher
will be putting the finishing touches
on this year’s TechTrek and Inter-
national Management Experience
programs that will bring students
to a close-up view of some of the
world’s leading high tech companies.
This will be the second year
for the “Trek” undergraduate tour,
which visits cutting-edge firms in
California and Washington; the
third year for the MBA excursion to
the same area; and the seventh year
for the Asian graduate-level trip,
which in the past has visited high
tech companies in China, Hong
Kong, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam
and India, among others.
Gallaugher sees a special benefit
to the field studies – introducing
current Boston College students to
University alumni who have moved
into leadership positions. “It’s inspiring to our students – both the
domestics and the internationals
– to see other ‘Eagles’ doing these
really great things.”
As an example, Gallaugher points
to alumnus Phil Schiller ’82, vicepresident of world-wide marketing
at Apple Computer who hosted the
Nov. 30 Forum to Explore
History of Jesuit Missions
Boston College will conclude the “Triple Jesuit Anniversaries Year” on
Nov. 30 with a conference that examines the Jesuit presence in Latin America
and Asia, with an eye on the role of music, art and architecture.
Sponsored by the Jesuit Institute, “The History of Mission: Theology and
the Fine Arts” will take place in Cushing 209 from 9-11 a.m. and 3-5 p.m.
Assoc. Prof. Gauvin A. Bailey (Theology) will present “Jesuit Missions and
the Arts in Colonial Latin America,” which discusses the “active dialogue”
Jesuits carried on with the host cultures of their missions in Latin America,
including Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, and how this was expressed in art and
architecture.
“Evangelizing the Evangelizers: The Border as Locus Theologicus,” by
Prof. Roberto Goizueta (Theology), shows how Christian gospels and Latin
American popular Catholicism offer fresh perspectives for reconsidering the
United States’ “frontier mentality” and its influence on Americans’ conception of their country’s border with Latin America.
Other speakers at the conference are Bernardo Illari, a professor at the
University of North Texas-Denton College of Music who will speak on
“Chiquitos: Music, Place, Time and the Sacred,” and Peter Phan, Ignacio
Ellacuria, SJ, Chair in Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University,
whose talk is “World Christianity: The Study of Christianity and the History
of Missions.”
The conference will end at 8 p.m. with a concert in St. Mary’s Chapel,
“Jesuit Colonial Music: Mission and Cathedral. A Concert of Villancicos,”
featuring Ensemble Abendmusik under the direction of John Finney.
Jesuit Institute Director Rev. T. Francis Kennedy, SJ, said the conference
is an apt wrap-up for a year which commemorated the 450th anniversary of
the death of Jesuit founder St. Ignatius of Loyola and the 500th anniversary
of the birth of two of the best-known early Jesuits, St. Francis Xavier and
Blessed Peter Faber.
“The themes that will be explored speak to the values, beliefs, concerns and
interests that were at the heart of these first Jesuits,” said Fr. Kennedy. “This
event is a way for us to reflect on the meaning of the legacy of Ignatius, Francis
Xavier and Peter Faber, to see what that legacy accomplished in the past and
to see where that same spirit is leading us in these days.”
For more information, see the Jesuit Institute Web page at www.bc.edu/centers/jesinst/.
Nov.22
•Men’s Hockey vs. New Hampshire, 7 p.m., Conte Forum.
Nov. 25
•Men’s Basketball vs. Rhode
Island, 2 p.m., Conte Forum.
and 9 p.m.; Trinity Chapel
(Newton Campus) 5 p.m. and 9
p.m., St. Ignatius Church, Lannon
Chapel - Lower Church, 9 p.m.,
Heights Room, 10:15 p.m., St.
Mary’s Chapel (Spanish Mass)
7:30 p.m.
WEEKLY MASSES
• St. Joseph Chapel (Gonzaga
Hall – Upper Campus) 5 p.m.
For more information on campus
events, see events.bc.edu and www.
bc.edu/bcinfo
“Classroom teaching is my primary focus. But being able
to do some of these extra things, to launch innovative programs, to creatively seek opportunities for student formation, it’s a gift,” Gallaugher says. “I have my dream job.
How many people can say that?”
BC group during a recent TechTrek.
“Phil is probably the best product marketer on the planet. He’s
also one of the guys who invented
the iPod. He’s listed on the patent
for the click wheel,” Gallaugher says.
“When we first spoke about TechTrek, [Schiller] said ‘Let’s do something different,’ and for the past
two years he’s met our students in
San Francisco and has given them a
master class on how Apple launches
new products. He brings us to the
MacWorld Expo two days before
the open of the show, takes us on
the floor and we get a behind-thescenes look at how it’s executed. He
talks about how Apple handles the
secrecy [of new products], brings us
into the press room and talks with
us about some of the details that are
critical to building the iconic brand
of our time.
“He then brings the group back
a couple of days later to see Steve
Jobs roll out products.
“We are very fortunate to have
such committed alumni in high
tech and in venture capital,” says
Gallaugher. “They have so much
to offer our students. I know that
I’ve learned a tremendous amount
and it gives us some a lot credibility when we can mention that our
alumni – people who graduated
from the seats that my students sit
in right now – are doing pioneering
things at firms like eBay, Google,
and Amazon,” he says,
“Classroom teaching is my primary focus. But being able to do
some of these extra things, to launch
innovative programs, to creatively
seek opportunities for student formation, it’s a gift,” Gallaugher says.
“I have my dream job. How many
people can say that?”