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The Society of National Association Publications (SNAP) has just named the premier issue of Suffolk Arts+Sciences magazine as the winner of the Most Improved Newsletter to Magazine category.

“In a year with a record-breaking number of entries, it was more difficult than ever to win an award, but you did. Your submission displayed superior quality and truly is The Best and the Brightest in the association community.”

The award will be recognized at the 28th EXCEL Awards Gala on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. The announcement of whether the magazine won a Gold, Silver or Bronze EXCEL Award will be made at that time.

The gallery of the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University is presenting the highest caliber and most innovative student work produced over the course of the 2007-2008 academic year through mid-May.

Four separate student exhibits focus on the principal areas of study at the school.

The public is invited to opening reception for each of the departments.

Foundation Student Exhibition

March 26 – April 4

Reception:
5-7 p.m. Thursday, March 27

Graphic Design Undergraduate Exhibition
April 7 – April 18

Reception:
5-7 p.m. Friday, April 11

Fine Arts Undergraduate Exhibition
April 22 – May 2

Reception:
5-7 p.m. Friday, April 25

Interior Design Undergraduate & Master’s Exhibition
May 5 – May 16

Reception:
5-7 p.m. Friday, May 9

The School of Art & Design gallery is located on the second floor of 75 Arlington Street and is open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
gallery@suffolk.edu

The new issue of Salamander, a literary journal edited by English Professor Jennifer Barber and sponsored by Suffolk University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been released.

Salamander is a journal for poetry, fiction, and memoirs. It combines the best new work by writers now reaching artistic maturity with exciting new work by established writers.

This issue of Salamander features:

• Fiction by David Crouse, Rachel Klein, Dana Kinstler and Kathryn Gahl
• Poetry by John F. Deane, Todd Hearon, Carol Moldaw, Eric Pankey, Christopher Siteman, Pam Bernard, and Jessica Greenbaum
• A portfolio of photographs, “Consider the Oyster,” by Emily Hiestan

Salamander took part in this year’s Associated Writing Programs Conference in New York City.

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In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Government Department, in partnership with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, welcomed Cynthia Enloe, activist, professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University, and Director of Clark University’s Women Studies program.  A prominent scholar, Enloe has written extensively on women and militarization. Her books include The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, and Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives. Enloe, whom Professor Judy Dushku described as “a modern day Simone de Beauvoir” for her ability to speak her mind even in the face of adversity, gave a lecture on Thursday, March 6th, on the role of globalization and its impact on women.

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Award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, critic, and theatre director Hugo Salcedo visited the College of Arts & Sciences as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar from March 3-14, 2008.

Salcedo, of the border city Tijuana, Mexico, is a professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. With the assistance of student translators, he spoke in numerous classes during his visit.

Professor Moreno’s class studied the playwright’s most famous play, El viaje de los cantors/The Crossing, which earned Salcedo the “Tirso de Molina” for the best Spanish language play of the year. Students gave a dramatic public reading of the play on March 11, 2008 at the C. Walsh Theatre, directed by alumna Colleen Rua.

Students Alisa Cherkasova, Katiuska Cruz, Adrienne Fitzgerald, Margery Furman, Caitlin Greco, Steve McCreary, Kathleen Pena, Robert Terrero, Stanley Thermora and English professor Jeremy Solomons acted out the tragic story of 18 Mexicans trying to cross the U.S. border illegally only to meet with their death trapped in a railroad boxcar. Slides playing behind the actors on stage showed scenes of the border dangers: a barbed wire fence, a U.S. border patrol officer with rifle, a helicopter’s searchlights, a scorpion, a human skull in the desert, a map of the Mexico-U.S. border, a collection of crosses, a church. Continue Reading »

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The Honorable Charles Fried, former associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, held a lecture on Modern Liberty, and open discussion for several classes in philosophy and human rights on March 6, 2008.

“Active liberty, as discussed with Justice Breyer earlier this week, is an exercise of joint authority in making government,” said Fried. “Modern liberty is a different concept. It is liberty before you get to government–who are we, what are our claims?”

Drawing on the examples of four different legal cases, including the Charter of the French Language in Quebec, which states that business in Quebec must be carried out in French, Fried raised a series of provocative questions. “Is liberty even possible in a modern administered democratic state?” Continue Reading »

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The Honorable Stephen Breyer, US Supreme Court Justice, visited the College of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, March 4, 2007 to speak to students, faculty and members of the Suffolk community. The webcast is available here.

He began his address with a poem by Tom Wayman, “Did I Miss Anything,” setting a humorous yet reflective tone for the event, then spoke on “active liberty”–the participation of citizens in the democratic process–and the reasons behind writing his book, Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005), which included showing students the connection between themselves and their government. “What’s the most important thing we want to teach students?” he asked. “Democracy.”

He continued, “The Constitution is not a document designed to solve the problems of the community at any level—local, state, or national. Rather it is a document that trusts people to solve those problems themselves. And it creates a framework for a government that will help them to do so. Continue Reading »

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Billye Avery, founder of the women’s health care movement and president of the Avery Institute for Social Change, spoke to more than 60 Suffolk students and faculty members on Thursday, Feb. 21 as part of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars lecture series.

“Know that your health is the most important thing that you have,” she said passionately, earrings swinging in emphasis above her purple turtleneck and jewel-colored blouse. “It is really one of the only things you own.”

Her dedication to sharing this belief with African American women led to her work as a health care reform activist in the ’70s, starting the National Black Women’s Health Project, which turns 25 this June. Over the past three decades, her work has grown into a national health care reform movement, improving access to health records, raising awareness of racial disparities in the health care system, joining women’s voices to obtain the health care they need, and emphasizing prevention and primary care as the vision for the future.

“We have a sick-care system,” she said, “not a health care system.”

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It is my pleasure to present to one and all the official CAS Faculty Directory! Now there is a centralized, online resource for students, faculty and staff to grab contact information for the CAS faculty. You’ll be able to get name, position, e-mail and on-campus extension with one clean and alphabetized list! COOL!

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It seems the year only just begun, but already we’re looking towards the light at the end of the tunnel. The CAS website has new information posted about Commencement 2008. Check here for all you would ever want to know about this year’s graduation ceremonies for both graduate and undergraduate students!

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