WFCR 88.5 FM & WPNI 1430 AM
PUBLIC RADIO FOR WESTERN NEW ENGLAND
R E P O RT T O
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F I V E C O L L E G E C O N S O RT I U M
A SUMMARY OF WFCR’S ACTIVITIES RELATING TO
THE FIVE COLLEGE CONSORTIUM DURING 2004
WFCR 88.5 FM
Hampshire House
131 County Circle, UMass
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
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INTRODUCTION
From its establishment, WFCR 88.5 FM has maintained a close, effective, and mutually
rewarding partnership with UMass and the Five College Consortium. In essence, WFCR,
UMass, and the Colleges augment one another’s strengths as they pursue a shared mission: the creation of a more informed public — one challenged and invigorated by a
deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures. To accomplish its
part of that mission, WFCR produces, acquires, and distributes programming that meets
the highest standards of public service in journalism and cultural expression, values that
are fully in keeping with the goals of higher education.
As you will see in this report, WFCR’s services to UMass and the Colleges are extensive.
Historically, the Five College Consortium has respected WFCR’s editorial independence,
and WFCR is committed to maintaining editorial control over station content. Nonetheless, much of WFCR’s news coverage is focused on events and trends at the schools.
Through its online and on-air Arts Calendar, 88.5 FM is a chief source of information on
cultural events hosted by the UMass and the Colleges. And WFCR provides technical
facilities and expertise to the faculty, staff, and students of the UMass and the Colleges.
Through administrative support services, in-kind contributions, and financial assistance,
UMass and the Colleges make an important contribution to WFCR’s continuing viability.
In turn, WFCR’s affiliation with the Five Colleges is advantageous to the schools, as the
Consortium gains stature by association with the high standards of journalistic and artistic
excellence practiced by WFCR and National Public Radio.
With the consent of the Colleges, the University of Massachusetts holds WFCR’s broadcast license in public trust, and the station is especially gratified to occupy a unique and
integral place in the school’s structure. Through administrative support services, in-kind
contributions, and financial assistance, UMass makes an important contribution to
WFCR’s continuing viability. In addition the Colleges contribute approximately 3 percent of the station’s annual revenue. In turn, WFCR’s affiliation with the Five Colleges is
measurably advantageous to the schools.
The benefits derived by the University and the Colleges from this association are well
documented:
In 1993, International Communications Research conducted the first study to evaluate the
relationship between public radio stations and their licensees. The results demonstrate
that UMass and the Colleges have a valuable asset in WFCR. Key highlights of the ICR
report include:
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82% of adults polled believe that universities and colleges that are affiliated with a public radio station provide a community service because
of the relationship.
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67% of adults polled and 80% of NPR listeners polled believe that it is either a “good” or “excellent” fit with the educational mission of a university to be associated with a public radio station.
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WFCR provides a 24-hour, 365-day-per-year presence for UMass and the Colleges by
delivering a highly educated audience — one that appreciates the value and power of education. This strong and influential audience helps the University and Colleges immeasurably by building and maintaining positive relationships in the surrounding community.
Such local support is especially essential to insuring the well-being of WFCR during a
time of budget cuts and mandated restrictions in the operation of the Commonwealth’s
public universities.
WFCR and the Five Colleges are part of a partnership that exists throughout public radio
to bring voices and viewpoints from around the world, across the nation, and down the
street to western New England.
WFCR provides members of the Five Colleges community with analysis, interpretation,
and depth that other programming sources do not match because of commercial goals and
restraints. WFCR offers an objective forum for public discourse: the very soul of healthy
educational institutions.
Connected by a shared mission and driven by similar goals, WFCR, UMass, and the Colleges will continue to profit by maintaining open and mutually beneficial working relationships. We offer this report as evidence of our commitment to strengthening those ties.
Please feel free to share this report with colleagues and other interested persons. If you
would like additional copies, or wish to discuss any aspect of WFCR’s association with
the Five Colleges, please contact General Manager Martin Miller at (413) 545-1990 or
miller@wfcr.org.
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F I V E C O L L E G E S - R E L AT E D N E W S S T O R I E S
WFCR is a primary news resource for members of the Five Colleges community. This is
our “beat,” and we cover it every day of the year. Rarely does a week go by without seven or eight news stories on events and issues particular to the Five Colleges. At the same
time, we each respect the boundaries of our involvement. Objective and unbiased reporting relies on preserving the editorial integrity of the newsroom. Through coverage of local and regional issues, in-depth analysis, colorful features, and insightful commentary
(often provided by faculty or administrators), WFCR’s news programs report not only
what’s happening, but also why it’s happening and what it means to our Five Colleges
audience.
J A N U A RY 2 0 0 4
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
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20 – Students are helping design wheelchairs for people in developing
countries.
SMITH COLLEGE
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12 – The College’s plan to tear down some apartment buildings to build an
engineering complex is drawing fire from some Northampton residents.
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15 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter’s monthly take on classic
videos and DVD’s to look for. This month: Beach Movies.
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31 – President Carol Christ told students, faculty, and staff that she’s
thinking about eliminating 54 nonacademic jobs over the next two
years and 25 faculty positions during the next five years.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
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21 – The College hosts a panel discussion on the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court’s decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
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23 – Professor Darby Dyer has been examining the data coming for the
Mars Rover Spirit, looking forward to data from Opportunity.
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29 – The College has surpassed its $250 million fund-raising goal for the
Plan for 2003; comments from President Joann Creighton.
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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9 – A dozen semifinalists for the position of President of UMass are being
interviewed this month.
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23 – Students are facing increases in room and board and mandatory
fees. A Trustees’ committee has proposed a $441 hike in room and
board and a $26 increase in mandatory fees.
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27 – FEATURE: Center for Renaissance Studies Director Arthur Kinney
on Rembrandt.
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29 – Officials at the University are increasing security to prevent disruptions on Super Bowl Sunday.
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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3 – Students could be facing another round of fee increases.
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4 – John McCutcheon has been hired as the school’s new Athletic Director.
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5 – Trustees have voted to increase room and board fees on the Amherst
campus by $442; tuition and fees are also going up.
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5 – Daniel Hunt, who pleaded guilty to stealing equipment from campus
labs and selling it on EBay, has been sentenced to jail time.
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6 – FEATURE: Retired UMass Professor Vince Cleary takes us to the
Mark Twain Museum in Hartford.
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9 – Trustees have approved a plan to borrow up to $85 million to build
more student housing on the Amherst campus.
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17 – UMass Professor Nilanjana Dasgupta has co-authored a study that
found in situations requiring snap decisions, anger can trigger automatic prejudice toward people of different ethnic groups.
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20 – FEATURE: Students at UMass and a performing arts high school
collaborate on a play that looks at the issues involved when schools
are pressured to ban arts events that some find offensive.
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23 – UMass Professor Robert Nakosteen comments on a Brookings Institution report that says an especially high percentage of college graduates left the Pioneer Valley in the 1990s.
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24 – FEATURE: Center for Renaissance Studies Director Arthur Kinney
on the relations between Indians and explorers of the “New World.”
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26 – FEATURE: Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich
speaks at UMass.
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26 – Jennifer Paluseo, a former student who gave birth in a dormitory
shower in May of 2002 has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her newborn son.
AMHERST COLLEGE
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11 – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke on campus, saying the
Constitution should not be used as a tool to force unpopular views on
the population (he did not address the issue of gay marriage directly
during his talk).
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13 – Richard Kahlenberg, an advocate for desegregating schools based on
economics, speaks at the College.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
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9 – Faculty at Mt Holyoke have endorsed a resolution that opposes the
proposed state constitutional amendment that would define marriage
as a union between one man and one woman.
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11 – FEATURE: Dean of Religious Life Reverend Andrea Ayvazian offers a commentary on the proposed constitutional amendment to ban
same-sex marriage.
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16 – FEATURE: A Mount Holyoke professor and her students are helping
NASA analyze data from the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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27 – More than 250 people rallied on campus, seeking improved working
conditions for temporary workers at the College.
SMITH COLLEGE
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19 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter recommends some Oscarwinning films now on video and DVD.
MARCH 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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1 – The family of a UMass student who vanished after a car accident in
northern New Hampshire has enlisted the help of a private investigator.
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3 – Same-sex marriage advocates gathered at the University to discuss
ways to fight a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex
marriage.
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5 – The University is warning 3,300 Continuing Education students to
watch out for credit card and identity theft after the Department’s
web server was hacked.
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5 – Several student and community groups are sponsoring a day-long
teach in to mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of
Iraq.
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8 – Graduate student teachers and research assistants at the University are
starting negotiations for a new contract.
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8 – Former basketball coach Jack Leaman has died of a heart attack.
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12 – Retired UMass Professor Vince Cleary takes us to Hancock Shaker
Village.
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16 – Bill Cosby is helping the University launch a collaborative teacher
training program with elementary schools in the Athol-OrangeWendell-New Salem area.
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16 – UMass officials say applications are up ten percent this spring, just as
early retirements and other state cutbacks have reduced the number
of full-time professors.
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19 – Trustees say a decision on a new President could be delayed until
April.
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23 – A search committee will reportedly recommend that Interim President Jack Wilson be named to the post permanently.
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23 – FEATURE: Center for Renaissance Studies Director Arthur Kinney
on a map of Venice now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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24 – Trustees have voted to hire Jack Wilson as the school’s new President.
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26 – FEATURE: A conversation with new President Jack Wilson.
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24 – MISER, the Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research is being split. Part will move to the Donahue Institute, part to
Holyoke Community College.
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26 – The family of a UMass-Amherst student is distributing thousands of
posters and increasing the reward to locate her.
AMHERST COLLEGE
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8 – Six students from the College have joined an international delegation
this week in Mexico to investigate the unsolved murder of over 380
women in two border towns.
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MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
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11 – FEATURE: Tom and Doris Smeltzer visit the campus to present Andrea’s Voice, the story of the death of their daughter to bulimia.
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16 – Mount Holyoke has announced a five and a half percent increase in
the cost of attending the College next fall.
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24 – FEATURE: Dean of Religious Life Reverend Andrea Ayvazian offers a commentary on Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ.
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
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11 – FEATURE: Tom and Doris Smeltzer visit the campus to present Andrea’s Voice, the story of the death of their daughter to bulimia.
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30 – President Greg Prince on an upcoming forum sponsored by Zonta International on a UN treaty designed to eradicate discrimination
against women worldwide.
SMITH COLLEGE
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18 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter suggests some Irish-themed
films to look for on video and DVD.
APRIL 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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1 – Former Student Jennifer Paluseo has been sentenced to a year in jail
for the death of her newborn son; she gave birth in a dormitory
shower in May of 2002.
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1 – FEATURE: The Minneapolis-based Guthrie Theater is in residence
this week at the University, presenting a production of Shakespeare’s
Othello.
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1 – FEATURE: Sheilah Siraguse, a graduate student at UMass, on the 24hour theater project, which give playwrights, directors and actors just
one day to take a concept and present it to an audience.
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3 – Students protest the annulment of last week’s Student Government Association election.
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6 – A new UMass poll says state residents would rather see higher taxes
that a cut in spending as a way to deal with the budget deficit.
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7 – UMass Sociology Professor Douglas Anderson has received a grant
for more that $900,000 from the National institute of Health to study
the historical precision of death records.
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9 – FEATURE: UMass Ethnobotany teacher Chris Kilham searches for
herbal remedies around the world.
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9 – FEATURE: Retired UMass Classics Professor Vince Cleary visits the
Polish Center Museum at Elms College in Chicopee.
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13 – FEATURE: Mental Health Division Director Harry Rockland-Miller
comments on a report that says colleges around the country are seeing an increase in the number of students seeking mental health services.
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19 – A memorial service is held for former UMass Basketball Coach Jack
Leaman.
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20 – FEATURE: An interview with Berklee Professor David Kirp, who
spoke at UMass about his new book, “Shakespeare, Einstein and the
Bottom Line.”
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20 – UMass officials predict there with be no drop in minority enrollment
in the coming academic year.
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21 – A group of international students from UMass met with the Amherst
selectboard in an unsuccessful attempt to get the board to back their
protest against a 65-dollar fee.
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21 – UMass Professor Tom Juravich comments on the new Bush Administration rules on overtime pay.
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23 – UMass students head to Washington for the March for Women’s
Lives.
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27 – The group Insurance Commission offers free cardiovascular screenings on the UMass campus.
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28 – Coca-Cola is the focus of a teach-in and rally on the UMass campus,
as activists seek to have the campus ban the sale of Coke products.
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29 – UMass President Jack Wilson says an op-ed piece by Rene Gonzalez
in the Daily Collegian that criticized former NFL star Pat Tillman
was “disgusting, arrogant, and intellectually immature.”
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30 – UMass and Amherst police are working to head off violence, believing the annual “Hobard Howdown” will take place this weekend.
HAMSHIRE COLLEGE
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1 – Hampshire College President Greg Prince announced that he will retire
at the end of the next academic year.
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23 – Hampshire College will halt the sale on campus of personal care
products that have been tested on animals.
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AMHERST COLLEGE
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2 – The Emily Dickinson Museum celebrates National Poetry Month with
a program called “A Little Madness In the Spring.”
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5 – Amherst College Political Science Professor William Taubman has
won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Nikita Khrushchev.
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5 – Amherst College hosts an international conference on Spanglish.
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6 – FEATURE: An interview with the Reverend Al Sharpton, who spoke
at Amherst College during Black Alumni Weekend.
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13 – An interview with Alison Des Forges, human rights activist and authority of the genocide in Rwanda, as she spoke at Amherst College.
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21 – Amherst College graduate Paul Rieckhoff returns to campus to describe his experiences as an infantryman in Baghdad.
SMITH COLLEGE
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1 – “Cross Cultural Connections,” created by Candace Walton, is the first
class at Smith to use computer technology for foreign language instruction.
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8 – FEATURE: Smith Economics Professor Andrew Zimbalist comments
on several issues concerning Major League Baseball, as the new season begins.
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15 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter’s monthly suggestions on
videos and DVD’s to look for at your local store. This month highlights the film career of Alec Guinness.
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21 – FEATURE: Smith College hosts a performance of a play marking the
25th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre.
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21 – FEATURE: A review of the play The Parrot by Smith College Theater Professor Paul Zimet.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
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9 – FEATURE: Mount Holyoke Professor John O. Fox discussed taxes
and his new book, Ten Tax Questions the Candidates Don’t Want
You to Ask.
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19 – Musician and Journalist Banning Eyre speaks at the college on the
use of popular music as a political tool in Zimbabwe.
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22 – FEATURE: An interview with Avery Sharpe, who performs with his
jazz trio at Mount Holyoke College’s Chapin Auditorium.
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M AY 2 0 0 4
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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1 – With the possibility of the “Hobart Hoedown” coming soon, Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs Michael Gargano says there will be a
zero tolerance policy toward destructive behavior.
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4 – FEATURE: Center for Renaissance Studies Director Arthur Kinney
comments on an exhibit of Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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6 – FEATURE: A program called “Remembering Our Humanity” is held
in the wake of the vandalism of a Holocaust Memorial on campus.
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6 – Bargaining terms approved by UMass Trustees allow the school’s new
President, Jack Wilson, to earn up to $400,000 a year.
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7 – The University is overhauling one of its popular scholarship programs,
the “University Scholar” award, to make more high school seniors eligible.
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11 – FEATURE: An interview with Doctoral Candidate Tsoaledi Daniel
Thobejane, on his book A Deeper Wound, focusing on the Black
Consciousness Movement.
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18 – The University is searching for a new Vice President of Academic
Affairs. The last person to hold that job was current UMass President
Jack Wilson.
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20 – The University plans to sell 110 acres of harbor-front property on
Nantucket Island to increase the school’s endowment fund.
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20 – The University has appointed Charlena Seymour as Provost and Senior Vice-Chancellor for academic affairs at the Amherst campus.
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21 – The new President of the University will be paid $350,000 a year,
plus benefits that could push his total pay to as much as $497,000.
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24 – More than 4,000 students received Bachelor’s degrees in nearly 100
majors during Sunday’s commencement ceremony.
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24 – FEATURE: Center for Renaissance Studies Director Arthur Kinney
on the historic changes in marriage practices during that period.
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27 – Third Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader meets with supporters at the University.
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29 – The University will be spending more next fall to help the recruitment efforts of fraternities and sororities, believing the organizations
play an important role on campus.
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AMHERST COLLEGE
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14 – FEATURE: Zalmai Yawar, a first-year student, describes his life
growing up in Afghanistan and serving as an interpreter for National
Public Radio reporters covering the war with the Taliban.
SMITH COLLEGE
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7 – FEATURE: An interview with Professor Meredith Michaels, co-author
of The Mommy Myth.
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12 – James Miller, an economics professor, has been awarded tenure at
Smith following an appeal and a year’s review.
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14 – FEATURE: Five members of the first graduating class of the Picker
School of Engineering describe their years at Smith and their plans
for the future.
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17 – Smith held commencement ceremonies Sunday. CNN Senior correspondent Judy Woodruff urged the graduates to consider journalism
as a career.
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20 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter’s monthly offerings of classic
films to look for on video or DVD focuses on college-themed pictures.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
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5 – Dean of Religious Life Andrea Ayvazian offers a commentary on the
debate over the words “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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7 – FEATURE: Preparations for the US Women’s Open, at the Orchards
Golf Course at Mount Holyoke College.
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17 – Leaders from nearly thirty women’s colleges and universities around
the world will gather for a conference addressing the challengers facing women’s education.
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19 – Mount Holyoke has received $1.2 million to bolster its science programs.
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21 – FEATURE: Retired UMass Classics Professor Vince Cleary’s
monthly tour of an area museum takes us to the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
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JUNE 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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1 – Sport Management Professor Glenn Wong on the revisions the NCAA
is making to its academic guidelines for student athletes.
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2 – The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation says there are financial and
bureaucratic obstacles at UMass. The foundation says the campus
should be able to retain tuition payments, rather than send them on to
the state treasury, and the Central Construction Agency has produced
long delays on building projects and a backlog of maintenance and
repairs.
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8 – The Amherst Select Board remains split over a bid by some UMass
students to get town meeting members to support their fight against
the fee for International Students.
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14 – FEATURE: Retired Professor of Classics Vince Cleary visits the
Plastics Museum in Leominster.
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22 – The campus will honor two of its most ardent supporters — John and
Elizabeth Armstrong — with the President’s Medal.
SMITH COLLEGE
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2 – FEATURE: A discussion with Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, who is giving the keynote address at conference on “Women’s Education Worldwide” at Smith and Mount Holyoke.
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17 – FEATURE: English Professor Jefferson Hunter’s monthly look at
classic films to rent this week looks at a BBC Television production:
The Singing Detective.
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25 – College officials say they will begin charging admission to the Art
Museum beginning July first.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
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2 – FEATURE: A discussion with Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, who is giving the keynote address at conference on “Women’s Education Worldwide” at Smith and Mount Holyoke.
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8 – FEATURE: Dean of Religious Life Andrea Ayvazian offers a commentary on “Politicizing Holy Communion.”
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28 – The College has signed an agreement with Clean Air, Cool Planet, a
New Hampshire based environmental organization dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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J U LY 2 0 0 4
AMHERST COLLEGE
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22 – FEATURE: Professor Lewis Spratlan, a Pulitzer Price music award
winner, on the changes announced the awarding of future contemporary music prizes.
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
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22 – FEATURE: The National Yiddish Book Center’s work concerning
Yizkor, or memorial, books. They document hundreds of Jewish
neighborhoods in Eastern Europe destroyed during World War II.
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28 – FEATURE: Critic Chris Rohmann on the Ko Festival of Performance.
SMITH COLLEGE
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7 – The Founding Director of the Picker Engineering Program is leaving.
Domenico Grasso has been named Dean of the University of Vermont’s College of Engineering and Mathematics.
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15 – FEATURE: English Professor Jefferson Hunter’s monthly look at
classic films takes on a political tone for July.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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5 – More than 1,600 Quakers across North America have gathered on the
campus this week.
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6 – FEATURE: Center for Renaissance Studies Director Arthur Kinney
reflects on the work of Astronomer Johannes Kepler.
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6 – FEATURE: A measure before the state legislature would allow UMass
police officers to respond to incidents off-campus, but in the town of
Amherst.
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8 – The campus has signed a ten-year, $42 million contract with Johnson
Controls for a major energy and water conservation project that could
cut utility costs on campus by 25 percent.
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9 – FEATURE: Retired Classics Professor Vince Cleary visits the Great
Falls Museum in Turners Falls.
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14 – UMass Professor Barry Braun has received a $410,000 grant to study
how combining physical activity with drug treatment can help prevent or control diabetes.
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14 – Extension Spokesman Wes Blixt says a plan to have the 4-H program
self-sustaining should be in place within a year.
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19 – The union representing Graduate Student Employees on campus is
criticizing the ruling the National Labor Relations Board says that
graduate teaching assistants at private universities can’t from unions.
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22 – Lyle Craker, the Director of the Medicinal Plant Program, plans to go
to court to force the federal government to rule on his three year old
request to grow marijuana for research purposes.
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22 – Researcher Maureen Perry-Jenkins is looking for mothers-to-be who
are African American, Latina, or from any other ethnic group to take
part in research on back-top-work issues.
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29 – Researchers say at least 20 percent on the student on campus have at
least one tattoo and 35 percent of the women have pierced a part of
their body other than their ear.
AUGUST 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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5 – Real Estate Developer James Karam has been named Chairman of the
University’s Board of Trustees.
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5 – FEATURE: A number of student groups are pushing administrators to
end the school’s long-time association with Coca-Cola.
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5 – After more than thirty years on campus, the Air Force will close its
ROTC program in the summer of 2007.
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6 – FEATURE: Retired Classics Professor Vince Cleary tours Historic
Northampton.
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9 – A coalition of staff and parents at UMass is circulating a petition to
preserve the University’s Child Care Program.
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10 – The University and four surrounding colleges have received a
$325,000 grant to help pay for a $3.3 million fiber-optic link among
the campuses.
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13 – An arbitrator has ruled that it is discriminatory for the University to
charge foreign students a $65 per semester fee.
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17 – About 300 incoming freshmen will likely be sleeping in temporary
quarters, such as dorm lounges, until the school finds more permanent housing.
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18 – Trustees are considering holding meetings via teleconference.
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19 – Bob Childs of the Urban Forestry Diagnostic Laboratory on the impact of cold winters on the Wooly Adelgid, an insect threatening the
region’s hemlock trees.
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21 – The University will eliminate a $65 fee charged to international students.
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25 – Professor James Theroux will be offering a “real time case study”
course in the School of Management this fall.
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26 – Sherrie Guyott has been named the new Director of the 4-H program.
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27 – FEATURE: Professor David Mednicoff has won a national award for
innovative methods of teaching about the September 11th terrorist attacks.
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27 – Dr. Alan Calhoun of University Health Services on the ramifications
of the new state requirement of immunizations for meningitis.
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31 – FEATURE: Center for Renaissance Studies Director Arthur Kinney
on cursing — it was outlawed during the Renaissance.
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
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9 – FEATURE: Hampshire graduate Elizabeth Brundage has written her
first novel, The Doctor’s Wife.
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12 – FEATURE: The Northeast Organic Farming Association meeting
will feature a debate between Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader
and Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
SMITH COLLEGE
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19 – FEATURE: English Professor Jefferson Hunter’s monthly look at
classic films explores Olympic-themed movies.
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23 – FEATURE: A commentary in honor of Smith College graduate Julia
Child.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
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25 – FEATURE: A commentary from Reverend Andrea Ayvazian on
challenges posed by Muslim women to segregation in their mosques.
SEPTEMBER 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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1 – For the third time, Mother Jones magazine has named UMass-Amherst
among the top ten activist campuses in the country.
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3 – A report from the Donahue Institute says the state economy is growing, but at a slow rate.

4 – Food Professor Fergus Clydesdale was a member of a committee updating federal dietary guidelines.

7 – University researchers are helping to track air pollution over New England and Canada, using balloons as airborne buoys to track the flow
of pollution.

7 – This year’s freshman class will be a little bit bigger than a year ago, by
about 100 students. 17 percent are students of color, the same as last
year.

8 – Legislators from Amherst want the state to expand its Endowment Incentive Program for the University.

9 – Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam records, speaks to UMass students, encouraging them to register to vote.

10 – A computer glitch has affected the ability of students to make academic, financial aid and housing arrangements.

13 – A wind turbine on campus will be dismantled, eventually winding up
in an exhibit on the history of renewable energy at the Smithsonian
Institution.

13 – Researcher Jane Kent-Braun has received a $618,000 grant from the
National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging to expand her study of skeletal muscle function in older adults.

21 – Students are asking a local lawmaker to help them get a polling place
on campus. The move requires a special bill filed with the legislature.

22 – FEATURE: Professor Sut Jhally describes the film Hijacking Catastrophe, produced by his Media Education Foundation.

24 – The Faculty Senate has voted to form a committee that will research
alternative computer-based student information systems, follow
problems with the system on campus.

24 – FEATURE: Retired UMass Classics Professor Vince Cleary tours the
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.

24 – Former Governor Michael Dukakis comes to campus to speak about
the presidential election and health care.

24 – A group of scientists at the University host a conference on nanotechnology.

27 – The nursing program is launching a three-year effort to increase diversity in the field.

27 – Computer glitches continue on campus; the financial aid department
is weeks behind in processing student forms.

27 – Campus officials are investigating a drunken party in a student government office that included students posing with a caricature of the
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Speaker of the Student Senate dressed as a member of the Ku Klux
Klan.
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29 – FEATURE: Wally Swist and author Jane Brox on the first Massachusetts Audubon Day at the University.
AMHERST COLLEGE

17 – FEATURE: Professor Ethan Clotfelter on his study that indicates that
strange behaviors of animals around the world may have environmental causes.

23 – FEATURE: Professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George
discuss their book Sense and Nonsensibility.

24 – FEATURE: Retired UMass Classics Professor Vince Cleary tours the
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

14 – FEATURE: Professor Michael Klare discussed his new book, Blood
and Oil.

21 – The search committee seeking a replacement for Hampshire College
President Greg Prince will interview candidates over the winter.
SMITH COLLEGE

16 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter’s look at classic films has
trains as a theme this month.

16 – Economics Professor Andrew Zimbalist comments on the lockout of
players by the National Hockey League.

22 – Former UMass Professor and Provost Johnetta Cole speaks in Wright
Hall on the struggle for women’s equality in the African-American
Community.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

8 – The College plans to hold a voter registration drive during a back-toschool carnival. Three students took part in a “Go Vote” training session during the summer.

16 – More than 400 new students from the College will be exploring the
Pioneer Valley this weekend as part of the Second Saturday program.
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21 – Stanford Psychology Professor Claude Steele speaks at the college on
how stereotypes commonly associated with a group of people can affect the performance of individuals in that group.
OCTOBER 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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1 – A conference on the changing face of rural poverty, sponsored by the
Franklin Community Action Corporation, was held at the University.

5 – Students want to set up a textbook rental program; the Faculty Senate
plans to set up a committee to study the idea.

5 – FEATURE: Renaissance Center Director Arthur Kinney comments on
Olympic-style games popular during the Renaissance.

5 – FEATURE: Former U-S Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach
comes to UMass to speak on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme
Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.

7 – Campus officials say they continue to recruit new faculty, in an effort
to rebound from years of budget cuts and early retirements.

7 – Hundreds of students rallied on campus, urging the administration to
more to promote diversity.

8 – FEATURE: Journalism Professor Bill Israel recounts teaching a class
at the University of Texas with Karl Rove.

11 – The Air Force has decided to keep its ROTC program at the University for two years of evaluation, a decision will then be made whether
the program will remain on campus.

14 – Campus officials say they have initiated disciplinary action against
nine Student Government leaders who were pictured drinking and
posing in front of a KKK caricature.

16 – Officials are appointing a special committee to look at racial diversity
issues on campus.

20 – Basketball player Maurice Maxwell is facing assault and battery and
disorderly conduct charges after an on-campus altercation.

20 – Nearly three dozen people face disorderly conduct charges as a result
of a disturbance on campus following a Red Sox-Yankees playoff
game.

21 – Campus police say they arrested 29 people after the Red Sox win
over the Yankees last night; not everyone arrested was a UMass student.

23 – The University has expelled one student and suspended three others
following their arrests during Red Sox victory celebrations.
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
25 – Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering Kathleen Rubin on the
Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Summit.

26 – FEATURE: Renaissance Center Director Arthur Kinney on the 700th
anniversary of the birth of Francesco Petrarch.

29 – Nearly two dozen University students are facing charges after the
Red Sox World Series win over Saint Louis.

29 – Governor Romney has named Julius Erving to the UMass Board of
Trustees.

30 – Bill Cosby is setting up a scholarship program at UMass for students
from poorer communities around the Amherst campus.
AMHERST COLLEGE

7 – FEATURE: The College sponsors a talk by David Callahan, a cofounder of Demos, a public policy center and think tank, and author
of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to
Get Ahead.

19 – Two programs at the College sought to raise awareness of the killings
of more than 380 women in Mexico over the past decade.

21 – Former Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz will discuss America’s recent economic experiences and their lessons for the future in a talk at
the College tonight.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

6 – FEATURE: Protestant Chaplain Andrea Ayvazian comments on violence around the world sparked by religious conflict.

13 – FEATURE: Professor Corinne Demas on having an unusual pet — a
donkey — in a political year.

20 – Professor Jon Western, one of the signers of an open letter opposing
the Bush Administration’s foreign policy.

29 – FEATURE: Protestant Chaplain Andrea Ayvazian comments on
faith, which has arisen often during the current Presidential campaign.

29 – Mount Holyoke College marks Halloween with a showing of the
1927 silent movie The Phantom of the Opera, accompanied by the
College’s orchestra.
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SMITH COLLEGE

28 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter’s monthly look at classic
films focuses on horror (for Hallowe’en).
NOVEMBER 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

2 – FEATURE: Project Engineer Graeme Sephton describes his efforts to
gain more information from the government concerning the crash of
TWA light 800 off Long Island in 1996.

2 – FEATURE: Retired Professor Vince Cleary continues his tour of area
museums with a journey to Arrowhead, the former home of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

2 – A sample of opinion from the UMass community on today’s Presidential Election.

8 – FEATURE: The University is making an effort to introduce nonscientists to polymer research through “Visual,” or Ventures in Science Using Art Laboratory, which creates pictures of polymers and
puts them on display in public places.

9 – FEATURE: Avraham Burg, a senior member of Israel’s Labor Party,
speaks on campus on “Struggling Towards Peace in Times of Terror.” His talks is sponsored by UMass Hillel.

10 – FEATURE: Renaissance Center Director Arthur Kinney discusses his
new book, Shakespeare’s Webs.

12 – A new commission on campus diversity meets for the first time. The
group has until February first to present recommendations, campus
guidelines, organizational structures and funding models to help
make the campus a racially and ethnically diverse learning community.

12 – Nearly one third of students surveyed by campus researchers believe
rioting is a normal part of college life.

16 – A panel exploring diversity issues on campus is holding an open forum on December 9th.

17 – Graduate Student employees hold a health care rally, as their contract
negotiations continue.

19 – Speaking to the Faculty Senate, Chancellor John Lombardi said he’s
gearing the campus up for a seven year fund raising campaign that
will began at the end of 2006.

19 – Rabbi Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights, speaks on campus. The group is an organization of Israeli Rabbis and Rabbinical
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students, committed to defending the human rights of all peoples, including both Israelis and Palestinians.

19 – A UMass student has created “Riot UMass,” a video game based on
clashes between students and campus police officers after Red Sox
playoff games. A campus spokesman calls the game “regrettable and
discouraging.”

23 – Researchers at the University have developed two new methods to
treat polluted water from textile mills.

24 – FEATURE: Renaissance Center Director Arthur Kinney on the anniversary of the arrival of Jews in America.

26 – A University student is replacing his video game, “Riot UMass” with
“Zoo-Mass.” In the new game, a student wearing a Red Sox cap
punches ducks at the campus pond instead of campus police.

27 – University entomologists have released 300 predatory beetles in
Mount Tom State Park, hoping they will reduce the population of the
Woolly Adelgid, an insect that is ravaging hemlock trees in the
Northeast.

29 – FEATURE: Professor John McCarthy on the Boston Accent, the topic
of discussion for his Chancellor’s Medal lecture.

30 – FEATURE: Competition between on-campus and off-campus meal
plans.
AMHERST COLLEGE

5 – Stories of people affected by war will be told at a weekend event at the
College, in conjunction with a photo exhibit on the “Pain of War” on
display at the Mead Art Museum through December 19th.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

5 – FEATURE: Staging Black Femininity, a series of lectures, films and
discussions taking place this semester at the College, will feature a
production of Suzan Lori-Parks’ play Venus.

9 – FEATURE: Economics Professor Jim Hartley on President Bush’s
economic policy. Hartley says the President is trying to change government policy to lessen its’ impact on society.

16 – Rami Khoury, Executive Editor of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper is spending a week as a scholar-in-residence at the College.

19 – Officials are investigating the vandalism of an art exhibit portraying
women of color.
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HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

10 – A puppet show about recent social movements in Argentina will be
the centerpiece of a presentation at Hampshire College by the Argentina Autonomist Project.
SMITH COLLEGE

16 – Professor Greg White on Colin Powell’s legacy as Secretary of State
— he says it will be marred by bureaucratic politics within the Bush
Administration.

30 – FEATURE: Joseph Winder, President of the Korea Economic Institute in Washington, on a campus forum on the “Future of Korea.”
DECEMBER 2004
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

1 – University officials say licensing income from research projects has
risen sharply over the last two years. The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked the five-campus system 14th in the nation, for generating more than $19 million in licensing revenue in 2003.

2 – A report by the University’s Donoghue Institute says the state’s economic recovery is picking up steam, due in part to a strengthening
labor market.

2 – With flu vaccine becoming more readily available, the University
schedules an immunization clinic.

2 – The faculty union holds a public hearing on the shortage of tenuretrack professors on campus. UMass administrators say efforts are
underway to rebuild the faculty.

3 – The campus is gearing up for five years worth of new construction and
renovation. The $550 million plan includes building more student
housing and putting up new science and art buildings.

6 – The University continues to look for an academic chief. A spokesman
for UMass President Jack Wilson says negotiations fell through with
the first choice to serve as Vice President of Academic Affairs.

8 – A University student was shot dead in his off-campus apartment. David Sullivan was a full-time student majoring in building materials
and wood technology.

9 – A competency hearing is held for Bryan Johnson, the Westfield man
charged with the shooting death of UMass senior David Sullivan.
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
9 – Two nutrition professors at UMass — Elena Carbone and Jean Anliker
— have been awarded a federal grant to study the eating habits of
young teenagers, in an effort to ward off obesity.

10 – FEATURE: The campus’ new Commission on Campus Diversity
holds a public hearing, where some students say the school is wrong
to cut services and programs aimed at helping students of color.

14 – The man charged with the murder of UMass student David Sullivan
has been sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.

14 – A report from UMass and Harvard says 248,000 Massachusetts
workers are misclassified as self-employed independent contractors.

15 – The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has turned down a request by a UMass professor, Dr. Lyle Craker, to grow marijuana so it
can be tested for medicinal uses.

17 – The University is launching an early-action admissions program that
comes with a two thousand dollar scholarship. Beginning next fall,
students who apply by November first will receive word by midDecember, scholarship notices will accompany acceptance letters.

24 – The University is moving its President’s office and headquarters operation from its current Beacon Street address to Boston’s financial
district.

24 – A group of four professors at UMass will begin the new year with a
research project that looks at the effects of mood and physical activity on memory in the elderly.

28 – FEATURE: Renaissance Center Director Arthur Kinney says the holiday season is one of icons, of famous images and paintings.

31 – UMass alumni will have their own private club in Downtown Boston
soon, next to President Jack Wilson’s new offices in the city’s financial district.

31 – FEATURE: A new online service called i2hub, created by UMass
student Wayne Chang, has drawn praise from fellow students and
anger from the recording industry.
SMITH COLLEGE

2 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter suggests classic films on video
or DVD that honor Hollywood.

3 – The college is looking for developers interested in building affordable
housing at its property on the corner of Bedford Terrace and State
Street.
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
23 – FEATURE: Professor Jefferson Hunter suggests classic musical films
on video or DVD that highlight the holiday season.

28 – The College’s credit rating has been downgraded by Moody’s Investors Service from stable to negative, because of the college’s plan to
borrow $90 million over the next three years to pay for an engineering and science complex and other projects. School officials say the
downgrade won’t hurt Smith’s ability to borrow money.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

6 – FEATURE: Reverend Andrea Ayvazian offers a commentary on conservative Christian beliefs and the national political discourse.
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

24 – FEATURE: Nancy Kelly, senior advisor to the President of Hampshire, admits she spends way too much money on holiday gifts.
F I V E C O L L E G E S E V E N T S U P P O RT
WFCR utilizes the resources of the Five Colleges whenever possible in staging its special events.

Hired the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center Box-Office to
provide ticket services for WFCR
F I V E C O L L E G E S U N D E RW R I T I N G
The Five Colleges often promote themselves through an underwriting arrangement with
WFCR. This is an effective and cost-efficient way to reach a broad spectrum of listeners
across western New England.
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Musicorda Summer Music Festival (Mount Holyoke College)
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Campus School (Smith College)
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Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
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Isenberg School of Management (University of Massachusetts)
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FIVE COLLEGE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON
W F C R O N L I N E A RT S C A L E N D A R 2 0 0 4
WFCR’s online presence is important enough so that we incorporated our Internet address into the station’s logo. Many of the visitors to our website are seeking information
on Five Colleges events. We link to Five Colleges websites and the Five Colleges Calendar from our own Arts Calendar.

WFCR includes in the online calendar all Five College events about which
we are informed.

Most music, theater and dance events and exhibits listed below, and some
of the readings, were mentioned in the daily broadcast calendars. These
brief reports, broadcast during news programs, refer listeners to WFCR’s
website for the larger online calendar and for ticket information.

In addition to the arts events listed below WFCR promotes others (e.g.,
Musicorda, Ko Theater, New Century Theater) that are assisted by one or
more of the Five Colleges.

The online calendar also lists lectures and panel discussions that may be
of interest to the public.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Massachusetts Wind Orchestra/Malcolm Rowell 1/20 FAC Concert Hall

Honor Band 2/2 FAC Concert Hall

UMass Vocal Jazz Ensemble 2/7 Barnes & Noble (FAC benefit book fair)

Graduate student jazz concert 2/12 FAC Room 44

Percussion Day and concert 2/15 FAC 36

Magic Triangle Series: Uri Caine Ensemble 2/17 Buckley

Faculty and student composers 2/22 Newman Center

Academy of Ancient Music & Robert Levin 2/23 FAC Concert Hall

Symphony Band & Wind Ensemble 3/3 FAC Concert Hall

Paulina Stark, Horace Clarence Boyer, Nigel Coxe 3/6 Springfield College

Magic Triangle Series: Brew 3/7 Buckley

Jazz Showcase (Richard Rodgers concert) 3/12 Bowker

John Katzenbach talk 3/11 Bartlett Hall 65

UMass Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, Percussion Ensemble 3/27 FAC
Room 44

Magic Triangle Series: William Parker Ensemble 4/3 Buckley
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Chapel Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Jazz Ensembles 4/9 Top of the Campus

John Manning, tuba, and Nikki Stoia, piano, 4/13 Buckley

Concert for the Earth II with UMass Choral Ensembles, Paul Winter, Jeffrey Holmes and Eduardo Leandro, 4/19 FAC Concert Hall

The UMass and Foxboro High School Wind Ensembles 4/21 FAC Concert
Hall

Silent films with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra 4/26 FAC Concert Hall

The New England Saxophone Symposium 4/27 Fine Arts Center

UMass Concert Band performance with George Parks, 4/28 FAC Concert
Hall

UMass Symphony Band and Youth Wind Ensemble 4/28 FAC Concert
Hall

David Jenkins & Nadine Shank French concert 4/30 FAC Room 44

UMass Orchestra, Chamber Choir and Chorale, 5/2 FAC Concert Hall

UMass Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Chapel Jazz 5/6 Bowker

UMass Percussion Ensemble 5/6 FAC Room 36

Benefit concert by UMass music faculty for Amherst Cinema Center 5/10
Buckley

UMass Percussion Ensemble 5/12 in front of FAC Lobby

UMass Chorale and Women’s Choir 5/12 Bowker

UMass Jazz Ensemble I and Studio Orchestra in Studio Follies 5/14
Bowker

Jazz in July participants 7/10 Lord Jeffery Inn Garden Stage

The Jazz in July All Stars, including John Blake, Sheila Jordan, Jeff
Holmes and Fred Tillis, 7/11 Bowker

Jazz in July participants 7/12 Bowker
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Solos & Duos Series: The Marks Brothers 9/25 FAC Concert Hall

UMass Jazz Ensemble I and the Chapel Jazz Ensemble 10/1 Bowker

Multiband Pops, with Chapel Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble I, Percussion
Ensemble, Symphony Band, UMass Marimbas, University Dancers, Vocal
Jazz Ensemble and Wind Ensemble 10/10 and 10/11 FAC Concert Hall
(Minuteman Marching Band 10/11)

Jazz Lab Ensemble 10/15 Top of the Campus

Solos & Duos Series: Jazz percussionist Andrew Cyrille 10/18 FAC Concert Hall

UMass Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band 10/23 Bowker

University Orchestra 10/30 FAC Concert Hall
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Choral Spectrum concert 11/2 FAC Concert Hall

United States Marine Band 11/7 FAC Concert Hall

Jazz pianist David Berkman 11/7 Bezanson Recital Hall

Percussionist Eduardo Leandro 11/8 FAC Room 36

University Chorale and Women’s Choir 11/17 FAC Concert Hall

Solos & Duos Series: Jazz pianist Ran Blake 11/20 FAC Concert Hall

UMass Trombone Choir and Low Brass Ensemble 11/21 FAC Room 44

UMass Chamber Choir 11/24 Bowker

UMass Vocal Jazz Ensemble and soloists 12/3 FAC Room 36

University Orchestra and Jazz Studio Orchestra 12/9 FAC Concert Hall

UMass Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band 12/10 FAC Concert Hall

Student Composers Concert 12/11 FAC Room 36

Chapel Jazz and Jazz Lab Ensembles 12/12 Bowker

UMass Graduate String Quartet 12/13 St. John’s Church Northampton

Youth Wind Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble with Lanfranco Marcelletti 12/13 FAC Concert Hall
AMHERST COLLEGE

Return to the Source 2/1 Keefe Campus Center

Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr 2/3 Buckley

Baritone Joseph Kaiser recital 2/24 Buckley

Altenburg Trio 3/1 Buckley

Amherst College Choral Society and Orchestra 3/3 Buckley

Fredric Cohen, Laura Klock, Lanfranco Marcelletti noon hour concert
3/13 Buckley

Stephen Porter Beethoven recital 3/17 Music Building Room 3

Collective Expanded Trio in music by Claire Arenius 4/4 Buckley

UMass Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Omnium Gatherum 4/25 Keefe Campus
Center

Madrigal Singers 5/3 Babbott Room

Amherst College Jazz Ensemble 5/3 Buckley

Amherst College Orchestra 5/4 Buckley

Choral Society Family Weekend Concert 10/25 Buckley

Amherst College Orchestra 11/8 Buckley

Choral Society Homecoming Concert 11/9 Buckley
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HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

Women in Experimental Music Microfestival 2/8 Music & Dance Building

Sarod player Arnab Chakrabarty 5/2 Music and Dance Building Recital
Hall

Danny Holt CD release concert 5/4 Music and Dance Building Recital
Hall
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

KRS-1 (hip-hop) 2/1 Chapin

Adrienne Greenbaum & Larry Schipull concert 2/15 McCulloch

Aaron Katz Band 3/7 Blanchard

MHC Orchestra and Jazz Ensembles 3/8 McCulloch

Singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg 3/28 Blanchard

Mount Holyoke Chamber Jazz Ensemble 4/12 McCulloch

Mount Holyoke Baroque Ensemble, concert of French music 4/14 McCulloch

Flutist Alison Hale and pianist Allen Bonde 4/19 McCulloch

Mount Holyoke College Glee Club and Chamber Singers, with Harvard
University Glee Club and Valley Festival Orchestra 4/20 Abbey Chapel

Sugar Ray & Simple Plan 4/30 Kendall Fieldhouse

Mount Holyoke jazz ensembles 5/3 McCulloch

Piano Ensemble Festival 5/11 Pratt Music Building

Faculty concert on travel themes 9/13 McCulloch

Duo-pianists Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt 9/29 McCulloch

Hip-hop concert with rapper Thirstin Howl 10/18 Chapin

Singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg 10/24 Torrey Living Room

Mount Holyoke Baroque Ensemble 10/25 McCulloch

Jazz vocalist Kim Zombik 10/25 Chapin

Family Weekend concert 10/26 Abbey Chapel

“Organ Phantasmagoria” 10/30 Abbey Chapel

Singer-songwriter Lis Harvey 11/7 Torrey Living Room

Mount Holyoke Symphony with Gary Steigerwalt 11/9 & 11/10 McCulloch
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Mount Holyoke Chamber Jazz and Vocal Jazz Ensembles 11/15 Mcculloch

Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Thanksgiving concert 11/17 Providence Place, Holyoke

Reed Foehl 11/21 Torrey Living Room

Mount Holyoke Jazz Ensembles 12/7 McCulloch

Christmas Vespers 12/8 Abbey Chapel
SMITH COLLEGE

Flutist Ellen Redman & pianist Clifton J. Noble, Jr., noon hour recital 2/5
Sweeney

Jane Bryden & Aulos Ensemble, Orpheus Legend concert 2/9 Sweeney

Muze Jazz Ensemble noon hour concert 2/12 Sweeney

Concert of music by Ronald Perera 2/17 Sweeney

Schubert String Quintet in C, noon hour concert 2/19 Sweeney

Alecia Russell gospel concert 2/23 Hills

Karen Smith Emerson recital 3/3 Sweeney

Schubert with Volcy Pelletier, noon hour concert 3/5 Sweeney

Orpheus with his Lute, Rebecca Raymond and Clifton J. Noble, Jr., noon
hour concert 3/26 Sweeney

Flutists William Wittig and Ellen Redman, noon hour concert 4/2
Sweeney
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Smith Glee Club and Orchestra with U.S. Naval Academy Men’s Glee
Club in Carmina Burana 4/7 John M. Greene

Smith College Chorus and Chamber Orchestra with UMass Men’s Chorus
4/13 Sweeney

Monica Jakuc and Joel Pitchon, Noon Hour concert 4/15 Sweeney

The Smith College Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra 4/20 Sweeney

Notables Spring Jam 4/20 Hills
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Smith College Gamelan Ensemble 4/27 Sweeney Concert Hall

Tea and trumpet music 4/27 Helen Hills Chapel.
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Compositions by Smith College students 4/21 Earle Recital Hall

Smith College Jazz and Wind Ensembles with Carol Sudhalter 4/27
Sweeney

Gamelan music and dance 5/3 Sweeney

Music faculty playing chamber music 5/17 President’s house
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Smith College Glee Club, Chamber Singers and Groove, 5/18 Sweeney

Senior soloists and Commencement Orchestra 5/18 Sweeney

Violinist Alicia Edelberg and pianist Monica Jakuc 5/23 Earle Recital Hall

Gunnar Madsen family concert 5/26 Sweeney

Antonio Pompa-Baldi piano recital 9/20 Sweeney

Joel Pitchon, Monica Jakuc and Jane Bryden in noon hour concert, Two
Aspects of Ruth Crawford Seeger, 9/24 Sweeney

Koto music and demonstration by Elizabeth Falconer 9/16 Earle Recital
Hall

Jazz waltzes played by clarinetist Bob Sparkman and pianist Jerry Noble
in noon hour concert 10/8 Sweeney

Concert by oral historian and kora player Alhaji Papa Susso 10/11
Sweeney

Pops Concert 10/18 John M. Greene

Faculty Inaugural Concert for Carol Christ 10/19 Sweeney

Sopranos Judith Gray and Karen Smith Emerson with pianist Jerry Noble,
noon hour concert 10/22

Pianist Julius Robinson 10/25 Sweeney

Graduate student performances 10/26 Sweeney

Smith College Orchestra Hallowe’en family concert 10/30 Sweeney

Autumn Serenade choral concert 11/9 Sweeney

Pianist Deborah Gilwood and cellist Arthur Cook 11/10 Sweeney

Smith College Chamber and Symphony Orchestras with William Wittig,
Ellen Redman and Joel Pitchon 11/16 Sweeney

Flutist Ellen Redman and friends noon hour concert 11/19 Sweeney

Smith College Jazz Ensemble and Wind Ensemble 11/21 Sweeney

Monica Jakuc concert of fantasies for fortepiano 11/24 Sweeney

Muze Jazz Ensemble noon hour concert 12/3 Sweeney

Student recital 12/5 Earle Recital Hall

Pianist Kenneth Fearn and cellist Volcy Pelletier 5/6 Sweeney

Christmas Vespers 12/8 John M. Greene Hall

Soprano Karen Smith Emerson and pianist Deborah Gilwood noon hour
concert 12/10 Sweeney

Smith Gamelan Ensemble 12/11 Earle Recital Hall

Pianist Jennifer Tao 12/15 Sweeney
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MUSIC PROGRAMMING TO HIGHLIGHT
FIVE COLLEGES PERFORMANCES
WFCR’s music programming frequently and consciously dovetails with performances at the Five Colleges.
Here are some of the many Five Colleges music events we promoted with on-air mentions and on the web.

Music of Benjamin Britten and Arvo Pärt in anticipation of a University
Orchestra concert

Music of Libby Larsen, looking ahead to premiere performance of her Piano Trio at the Fine Arts Center

Performance by Estela Olevsky, looking ahead to her performances at
UMass and Amherst College (“Love Notes”)

Broadcasts of UMass graduate Stephen Michael Newby’s “Four Gospel
Songs” for Baritone & String Orchestra

Performances by the Concordia Choir, prior to their appearance at Mt. Holyoke College

Music by Rossini and Stravinsky, looking ahead to the UMass Orchestra
concert

Performances by pianists Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt, prior to their
recital at Mt. Holyoke College

A broadcast of Erik Satie’s “Vexations” prior to its performance at Hampshire College

Griffes’s “Poem for Flute and Orchestra” prior to its performance by the
Amherst College Orchestra

Selections from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, prior to its performance by the
UMass Opera Workshop and Five College Early Music Program at Smith
College

Broadcasts of UMass faculty members Walter Chesnut and Ernest May’s
Music for Trumpet & Organ, recorded at the University.
WFCR FIVE COLLEGES INTERNS FOR 2004
WFCR augments the educational enterprise of the Five Colleges through a supervised
internship program.
NEWS DEPARTMENT

Summer Session – Dylan Schneider, Amherst College

Fall Semester – Julia Botero, Hampshire College
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Fall Semester – Christina Antolini, Hampshire College

January Intersession – Erika Lovely, UMass

January Intersession and Spring Semester – Benjamin Legg, UMass

Spring Semester – Frances Carr, UMass

Spring Semester – Lauren Foss Goodman, UMass

Spring Semester – Gwyneth Merner, Hampshire College
MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Summer Session – Dylan Schneider, Amherst College
OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT

Fall Semester – Carla Neufeldt, Smith College
DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

Fall Semester – Robin Gold, UMass

Fall Semester – Sandra Marquez, UMass

Fall Semester – Kelly Sleyman, Mount Holyoke College
2004 FIVE COLLEGES VOLUNTEERS
Most nonprofits run on the energy and dedication of their volunteers, and WFCR is no
exception. We are fortunate to have cultivated a troop of committed volunteers from the
Five Colleges.
Leslie Arriola: UMass
Erin Barker: Mount Holyoke College
Michael Beaulieu: UMass
Jennifer Bedell: UMass
Jessica Bloom: UMass
Dennis Bromery: UMass
Jacqueline Brown-Hazard: UMass
Sarah Buchholz: UMass
Jae Chang: Amherst College
Alexia Cirigliano: UMass
Amanda Collings: UMass
Merry Cushing: UMass
Elizabeth Dale: UMass
Avril de la Cretaz: UMass
Public Radio for Western New England
Eric Dewar: UMass
David Dudek: UMass
Jill Ehrenzweig: UMass
Tom Ehrgood: Amherst College
Cami Elbow: UMass
Justin Fermann: UMass
Sarah Ford: UMass
Chelsea Fortier: Mount Holyoke College
Angela Fowler: Hampshire College
Harrison Gregg: Amherst College
Dave Gross: UMass
Susanne Hale: UMass
Paula Harmon: Hampshire College
Joanna Heersink: UMass
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Jennifer Higgins: Amherst College
Doris Holden: UMass
Linda Honan: UMass
Nancy Howell: UMass
Dominique Jackson: Mount Holyoke
College
Beth Jones: UMass
Stephen Jones: Mount Holyoke College
Ticora Jones: UMass
Jennifer Kaplan: Amherst College
Jim Kelly: UMass
Susan Kimball: Amherst College
Arthur Kinney: UMass
Rosa Kramer: UMass
Christine Kumiega: UMass
Sara Lawrence: Mount Holyoke College
Ruth Levine: UMass
Robin Luberoff: UMass
Karen Mack: UMass
Trish Mailler: Smith College
Kimberly McDowell: UMass
Marianna McKim: UMass
Dale Melcher: UMass
Kurt Mills: Hampshire College
Anne Moore: UMass
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Janet Muzzy: UMass
Julie Nelson: UMass
Martha Nelson: UMass
Alison Noyes: Smith College
Mary Orisich: UMass
Jennifer Pinkham: UMass
Roberta Potter: UMass
Judith Roberge: Smith College
Deborah Rose: UMass
Merle Ryan: UMass
Terry Sall: UMass
Stacy Schmeidel: Amherst College
Elizabeth Seeley: Amherst College
Margo Shea: UMass
Jane Stein: UMass
Judy Steinkamp: UMass
Marcy Stengel: Hampshire College
Irene Tsai: UMass
Courtney Wade: UMass
Gwen Whelan: UMass
Betty Wilda: UMass
Neysa Wilkinson: UMass
Larry Zacharias: UMass
Bob Zimmermann: UMass
February 2005
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I S D N S T U D I O FA C I L I T I E S P R O V I D E D T O
FIVE COLLEGES PERSONNEL
We provide technical broadcast assistance to the Five Colleges community, including
ISDN (digital) connections and recording services for faculty and staff interviews.
DATE
02/02/04
05/13/04
06/03/04
07/16/04
09/08/04
09/15/04
12/22/04
04/27/04
09/08/04
02/18/04
07/20/04
08/02/04
10/20/04
10/22/04
11/02/04
11/15/04
09/17/04
11/13/04
02/13/04
04/14/04
06/04/04
08/16/04
09/07/04
09/13/04
09/17/04
10/25/04
12/16/04
12/31/05
INDIVIDUAL
Ilan Stavans
Martha Sandweiss
Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans
Jan Dizard
Ethan Clotfelter
Ilan Stavans
Michael Klare
Michael Klare
Christopher Pyle
Martha Ackman
Sohail H. Hashmi
Karen Hollis
Joseph Ellis
Joseph Ellis
Rami Khouri
Marc Steinberg
Dr. Randy Frost
Joe Demerath
Richard Minear
Martin Espada
Martin Espada
Horace C. Boyer
Julius Lester
Alan Robinson
Nicholas Xenos
Robert Pollin
John McCarthy
Public Radio for Western New England
AFFILIATION
Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College
Hampshire College
Hampshire College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College
Smith College
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
BROADCAST
BBC: The World Today
WBEZ: Odyssey
BBC: The Word
Latino USA
WBEZ: Odyssey
Living On Earth
Commonwealth Journal
NPR: Tavis Smiley Show
Fresh Air
Justice Talking
NPR: All Things Considered
BBC: Current Affairs
Quirks & Quarks
NPR: Morning Edition
NPR: Talk of the Nation
WBUR: The Connection
LTS: Sound & Vision
People's Pharmacy
CBC: The Current
Australian BC: Sunday Morning
BBC: The Word
NPR: Tavis Smiley Show
BBC Wales
Hyperion Books
Wallabee Multimedia
NPR: Talk of the Nation
Marketplace: Sound Money
NPR: Day to Day
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G R AT I S D U P L I C AT I O N S P R O V I D E D T O
A F F I L I AT E S O F T H E F I V E C O L L E G E S
DATE
9/23/2004
4/23/2004
9/14/2004
12/24/2004
2/9/2004
2/11/2004
3/27/2004
4/9/2004
5/17/2004
5/21/2004
6/2/2004
6/8/2004
8/25/2004
9/16/2004
10/6/2004
10/13/2004
10/29/2004
11/9/2004
12/6/2004
1/15/2004
4/8/2004
4/15/2004
4/21/2004
5/14/2004
5/20/2004
6/22/2004
7/7/2004
8/19/2004
9/16/2004
10/28/2004
10/30/2004
11/16/2004
12/2/2004
12/23/2004
1/27/2004
2/6/2004
2/24/2004
3/23/2004
4/6/2004
4/9/2004
4/9/2004
4/13/2004
INDIVIDUAL
Paul Statt
Aryenish Birdie
Michael Klare
Nancy Kelly
James Harold
Andrea Ayvazian
Andrea Ayvazian
John O. Fox
Kevin McCaffrey
Sabina Cray
Kevin McCaffrey
Andrea Ayvazian
Andrea Ayvazian
Kevin McCaffrey
Andrea Ayvazian
Corinne Demas
Andrea Ayvazian
James Hartley
Andrea Ayvazian
Jefferson Hunter
Andrew Zimbalist
Jefferson Hunter
Paul Zimet
Laurie Fenlason
Jefferson Hunter
New Century Theatre
Tom McCabe
Jefferson Hunter
Jefferson Hunter
Jefferson Hunter
Nat Fortune
Greg White
Jefferson Hunter
Jefferson Hunter
Arthur Kinney
Vince Cleary
Arthur Kinney
Arthur Kinney
Doug Anderton
Frannie Carr
Vince Cleary
Dr. Harry Rockland-Miller
Public Radio for Western New England
AFFILIATION
Amherst College
Hampshire College
Hampshire College
Hampshire College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
Smith College
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
SEGMENT PROVIDED
Sense and Non-sensibility
Animal Activists at Hampshire
Blood and Oil
Better to Receive than to Give
Gay Marriage Resolution
Civil Marriage v. Civil Unions
The Passion of the Christ
10 Questions Tax Book
Women's Education Conference
Cleary
Women's Conference
Politicizing Holy Communion
Muslim Women
Second Saturday
Religious Conflicts in the World
Political Pet
Faith and Presidential Politics
Bush Economic Policy
Faith in the Political Process
Beach Movies
Baseball
Alec Guinness
Parrot and Coastline
Picker School Graduates
College Films
Heidi Review
Treasure Island
Olympic Films
Reel Trains
Hallowe'en Horror, pt. 2
Fortune Unedited
Powell Legacy
Hollywood Movies
Movie Musicals
Rembrandt
Mark Twain House and Museum
Amerindians
Cartography
Grammars of Death
Medicine Hunter
Polish Heritage Center
College Students' Mental Health
February 2005
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DATE
5/21/2004
5/25/2004
7/6/2004
7/9/2004
7/26/2004
8/3/2004
8/6/2004
8/19/2004
8/27/2004
8/31/2004
9/22/2004
9/24/2004
9/29/2004
10/8/2004
10/26/2004
11/2/2004
11/2/2004
11/10/2004
11/24/2004
11/29/2004
12/2/2004
12/17/2004
12/28/2004
INDIVIDUAL
Vince Cleary
Arthur Kinney
Arthur Kinney
Vince Cleary
Stephen B. Mabbee
Arthur Kinney
Vince Cleary
Bob Childs
David Mednicoff
Arthur Kinney
Adi Biemak
Vince Cleary
Wally Swist
Bill Israel
Arthur Kinney
Graeme Sephton
Vince Cleary
Arthur Kinney
Arthur Kinney
John McCarthy
Sylvia Brandt
Jonathan C. Lewis
Arthur Kinney
Public Radio for Western New England
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AFFILIATION
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
UMass
SEGMENT PROVIDED
Mount Holyoke College Museum
Marriage In the Renaissance
Kepler
Great Falls Center
Field Notes: Geologic mapping
La Gioconda
Smith Museum
Adelgids
Teaching 9/11 Award
Cursing
Hijacking Catastrophe
Mead Art Museum
Mass Audubon Day
Karl Rove
Petrarch
Flight 800
Arrowhead
Shakespeare's Webs
Jews Arrive in America
Pahk the Cah
Tenure Track
Autism Pts. 1 and 2
Raphael
February 2005