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WSC Nursing Students to Build Cardboard Village:
Renowned Journalist Advises
Students to
Speaker to Discuss
Teaching for the and in PBS Documentary Companion Book
Renowned Journalist Advises Students to
Renowned journalist David Barsamian told a crowd of more
than 80 Worcester State College students to be careful consumers of information
when he delivered the lecture What We Say Goes: Pakistan, Iran, and US Foreign
Policy, Friday, September 12. The
Center for the Study of Human Rights sponsored the lecture and in addition a
second talk Imperialism Old and New, later that evening. According to Barsamian, the number of corporations controlling U.S. media
sources has declined from 50 in 1978 to only five today.
This loss of diversity in the marketplace of news, he says, has resulted
in little attention paid to world news and weapons of mass distraction.
He describes this as a mass news market that places more emphasis on
platitudes than facts.
One example he addressed is Iran. This
nation has a complicated history in U.S. news, according to Barsamian.
Because the nation has the second largest oil reserve in the world, he
maintains, U.S. interests worked to undermine a democratic government elected in
the 1950s that sought to nationalize oil to return more of the nations
resources to the country rather than international oil interests. This, he said,
coupled with U.S. support of Iraq in an armed conflict with Iran contributed
further to tension in the region. He also had harsh criticism for profiteers.
He stated that Exxon posted record profits, beginning in 2005 of $38
billion and growing to $40 billion in 2007.
This part of the economy is doing very handsomely, he said, while
other parts of the economy, including housing, are seeing conditions similar to
the Great Depression. Barsamian is the award winning founder and director of Alternative Radio (AR),
the independent weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. AR presents
information and perspectives that are ignored or distorted in the
corporate-controlled media. The one-hour program is broadcast on more than 125
public radio stations around the world. Barsamian is also national producer of
Making Contact, another weekly radio program. His interviews and articles appear
in The Progressive, The Nation, Z and other journals and magazines.
Speaker to Discuss Teaching for the Dr. Andrew G. De Rocco will lead a two part faculty workshop series focused on teaching for the liberal arts. He will speak directly to the challenges and rewards for the college, its faculty and students, as implementation of Worcester State Colleges Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum progresses. Participants will be challenged to explore the opportunities for curricula coherence as they reexamine the meaning of liberal learning and teaching and embark on the design or redesign of courses. The first
of the two workshops will be held on Tuesday, September 23, from
2:30 5:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge, located on the third floor of the Sullivan
Academic Building. Part two of the
series will be held on Tuesday, October 7, from 2:30 5:30 p.m., in the same
location. Refreshments will be
served and workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet with Dr. De Rocco
one-on-one. This workshop
series was funded by a generous grant from the Davis Educational Foundation. Dr. De Rocco has a long
academic history ranging from Professor of Physics at the Universities of
Michigan and Maryland to Dean of Faculty at Trinity College to President of
Denison University. He is a former
Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Connecticut, has served as
chair of the New England Board of Higher Education, and as senior moderator for
the Educational Leadership Program, a national seminar that over two decades
brought together college and university faculty and administrators to examine
foundations of the liberal arts and sciences and their relationship to the
curriculum.
WSC Professors Research Featured at Harvard and in PBS
Documentary Companion Book
This wasn't a school project, she said. I was curious
about their lives and wanted to record their stories. This curiosity about other peoples lives has paid off
professionally for Krissoff Boehm. The Schlesinger Library for the History of
Women at Harvard University recently requested that she contribute to the
library the tapes and transcripts from her recent project, a book called
Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great
Migration. The Schlesinger will make these available to scholars in
the future, she said. This is a way to extend the voices of the 40 women
beyond the book. An old family friend in Finding women to interview was tough.
I wrote churches and interest groups, Krissoff Boehm said. No one got
back to me. So she used word of mouth to get the word out about her work.
Friends told friends. She interviewed women in The oldest interviewee was 100 and in The book, which the University Press of Mississippi will
publish in March, is an example of the shared authority of oral history.
You're creating the document together, Krissoff Boehm said. Each chapter begins with the voice of one of the interviewees.
Other voices appear throughout the chapter. There's no me in it, asking
questions, Krissoff Boehm said. This is more like a Studs Terkel treatment of
the material. There's an art to it. She does do the work of a historian, too.
In each chapter, she analyzes the stories the women have shared. The Schlesinger Library awarded Krissoff Boehm a grant to edit
and copy the interview tapes for its collection.
Another copy of these materials will go to the Bentley
Historical Library at the Krissoff Boehm has also contributed a chapter, The National Barn Dance, the nations most popular radio show
in the 1930s and 1940s, broadcast from When we think of The Hay Loft Gang will be a companion book for a PBS
documentary by the same name, which will air this fall. Perhaps
people will then begin to link country and western music with
THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE and CIVIC
ENGAGEMENT -
The First 2008-2009 CSD/SLD Think
Tank Gathering will be held on
Monday, September 29,
from 9:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at the College of the Holy Cross.
Schedule:
9:30-10:00 Check in and Continental Breakfast; 10:00-11:00 Welcome and
Introductions- MACC and Campus Updates; 11:00-12:00 Workshop Presentation;
12:00-12:30 Lunch; 12:30-2:00 Resume Workshop, Closing.
Open to
ALL Community Service Directors, Service Learning Directors
and any Faculty involved with Service Learning. Location: Room 402 (4th
Floor), Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross,
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Monday, September 15, 2008
THIS WEEK Thurs., Sept. 18
Red Cross Blood Drive
Fri., Sept. 19 COMING UP
Film:
Celebrating
the Life Wed., Sept. 24
Latino Family College Fair Thurs., Oct.2
Dr. Robert Ross presents Mon., Oct. 13
Columbus Day Holiday Fri., Oct.17
Andres Torres presents
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When
she was about 11, Lisa Krissoff Boehm (Urban Studies) sat down
with her great grandparents, who had emigrated from 