On July 8, 2008, the premier issue of Suffolk Arts+Sciences magazine received a 2008 APEX Award for Publication Excellence in the category of New Magazines & Journals.

Presented by Communications Concepts of Springfield, VA, the 20th annual awards competition evaluated 4,479 entries; 837 were magazines and journals. Suffolk Arts+Sciences was one of 11 new publications from across the country to receive an Award of Excellence.

Other winners in this category include: Time Inc. Content Solutions in NYC, The Pohly Group in Boston, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in San Francisco. Click here for more information.

The Society of National Association Publications (SNAP) named the premier issue of Suffolk Arts+Sciences magazine as the 2008 Gold Award 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 Suffolk Arts+Sciences newsletter made quite a transformation. Its content, photos and inclusion of a range of alumni, students and faculty were simply beautiful,” wrote the judges.

In addition, SNAP presented Suffolk Arts+Sciences with an additional overall award: the EXTRA! Award–Above and Beyond the Ordinary, for outstanding innovation in association publishing.

Both awards were presented at the 28th EXCEL Awards Gala on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C.

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

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.

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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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. (more…)

“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?” (more…)

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. (more…)

“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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