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Manhattan College

Congratulations to James Breen for winning our Flickr photo contest last week! We thought his photo captured the true beauty of Manhattan College’s campus.

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[JR: Need a URL to point folks to. It's locked up here on FACEBOOK.]

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Manhattan College All of the photos can be viewed at flickr.com/groups/MCSocial11:37am

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http://www.manhattan.edu/news/manhattan-college-host-history-black-film-event-feb-23

Manhattan College To Host History of Black Film Event on Feb. 23
Posted on February 17, 2012

The Manhattan College diversity committee will host a history of black film event on Thursday, Feb. 23 in the Smith Auditorium to commemorate Black History Month. The event will take place at 12 p.m. and will feature the documentary A Century of Black Cinema, along with a presentation by retired New York City crime photographer and film collector Walter Taylor.

A Century of Black Cinema chronicles black film from its early history to modern works. In conjunction with the documentary, Taylor will bring rare films from his personal collection to display and discuss. Those in attendance will also have the chance to participate in a trivia challenge hosted by the members of the diversity committee, and movie posters will be given away as prizes.

“Movies bring people joy and they are something that everyone can relate to,” said Vicki Cowan, director of human resources at Manhattan College and a member of the diversity committee. “Hopefully people will go back and look up some of the historical movies that are discussed at the event.”

The public is welcome to attend the College’s history of black film event on Feb. 23.

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http://www.manhattan.edu/news/manhattan-named-all-academic-team-ustfccca

Manhattan Named All-Academic Team by USTFCCCA
Posted on February 17, 2012

Two days after the Manhattan College women’s cross country team was recognized for its academic success by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), the men’s squad received the same honor.  The Jaspers, who had five athletes named to the MAAC All-Academic Team, were one of 147 squads named a Division I Cross Country All-Academic Team on Wednesday.  Manhattan had a 3.06 team GPA during the fall semester.

All teams that started at least five runners at their respective NCAA Regional Championship and had a team GPA of 3.00 or higher were eligible for all-academic status.  The Jaspers placed 29th at the NCAA Northeast Regional.

The nation’s highest GPA was the 3.81 posted by Chattanooga.  The Scholar Team of the Year, which goes to the program that earned All-Academic honors that had the highest team finish at the NCAA Championships, went to Wisconsin.  The Badgers, who won their fifth National Championship in 2011, had a team GPA of 3.08.

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http://www.manhattan.edu/news/acclaimed-authors-visit-manhattan-college

Acclaimed Authors To Visit Manhattan College
Posted on February 16, 2012

The Manhattan College English department and the school of arts are launching the fourth semester of the Major Author Reading Series (M.A.R.S.), beginning with acclaimed author Junot Díaz on Feb. 29 at 5 p.m.

Designed to engage and expose students to modern literature, M.A.R.S. has brought a variety of writers to campus for readings and book signings, including Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad; Rick Moody, award-winning novelist; and Tina Chang, the poet laureate of Brooklyn.

The school of arts, in conjunction with student government, Manhattan Magazine and the modern foreign languages department, is proud to welcome Díaz, the first Latino writer in the M.A.R.S. program.

Author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Dayton Literacy Peace Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), Pushcart Prize XXII and The O’Henry Prize Stories (2009). He is currently fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge & Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Entertainment Weekly has described The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as, “Terrific … Narrated in high-energy Spanglish, the book is packed with wide-ranging cultural references — to Dune, Julia Alvarez, The Sound of Music — as well as erudite and hilarious footnotes on Caribbean history. It is a joy to read, and every bit as exhilarating to reread.”

Following Díaz, Emma Straub, author of Other People We Married and the forthcoming Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, will visit campus on April 2. Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of Late Wife, will finish off the spring 2012 series on April 19.

All of the M.A.R.S. events are open to the public and will be held on campus in Hayden Hall, room 100. In addition, the April 2 and 19 events will start at 4:30 p.m.

For more information about the M.A.R.S. series at Manhattan College, contact Adam Koehler, assistant professor of English, by email at adam.koehler@manhattan.edu or phone (718) 862-7546 or David Eye, visiting assistant professor of creative writing, by email at david.eye@manhattan.edu or phone (718) 862-7921.

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http://www.manhattan.edu/news/manhattan-college-students-provide-free-tax-preparation-bronx-residents

Manhattan College Students Provide Free Tax Preparation To Bronx Residents
Posted on February 16, 2012
UNHP also to host mobile tax date on College’s campus on Feb. 20

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As part of the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, Manhattan College business students are helping to provide free tax preparation at the Refuge House in the Fordham Bedford section of the Bronx during the current tax season. The College is partnering with University Neighborhood Housing Program (UNHP), Fordham Bedford Community Services and Ariva Inc., for the third consecutive year to make the service available to qualified Bronx residents.

UNHP will also hold a mobile tax date on Manhattan College’s campus on Monday, Feb. 20 from 1-4 p.m. for qualifying staff, students and local community residents in Miguel Hall, room 209. Space is limited for the event, and those arriving earlier will be waited on first.

“Along with being a great learning experience, it feels good to use the skills you have to help out people who are less fortunate,” said Kimberly Mohn, a senior accounting and finance major, and the program’s student leader.

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[JR: Sad that the tax requires smarts to figure it out. And, that we departed from the Dead Old White Guys' vision of freedom. Plus would you want to beg student to do your taxes? And, only one day.]

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http://www.manhattan.edu/news/president-travels-around-world-witness-global-catholic-work

President Travels Around the World to Witness Global Catholic Work
Posted on February 06, 2012

Since Manhattan College was first established in 1853, it has been committed to an educational mission that puts service to others at its core. When Manhattan’s president, Brennan O’Donnell, Ph.D., recently received an invitation to travel to Africa to witness the work of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), he saw it as an opportunity to deepen the College’s connection with the U.S. Catholic Church’s preeminent global service organization.

“I hope that the college presidents who went with us on this trip, including President O’Donnell, got to see how we are all part of one human family, and how solidarity really can transform the world. I hope they also saw how we learn from those we serve,” says Ken Hackett, former president of CRS, who traveled with the delegation. “Finally, I hope they were inspired to find ways to collaborate with CRS to bring our experience on the ground.”

On Jan. 9, O’Donnell traveled from New York City to the city of Kigali in Rwanda, a nation that is still recovering from the 1994 genocide that killed approximately 1 million people. Accompanied by Mary Lyons, Ph.D., president of the University of San Diego; Sister Anne Munley, IHM, Ph.D., president of Marywood University; and Rev. Stephen Privett, S.J., president of the University of San Francisco; O’Donnell and the group began their trip throughout Rwanda and Burundi with CRS.

CRS is the official humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community and is dedicated to assisting impoverished and disadvantaged people around the world regardless of their race, religion or ethnicity. The organization started its work in Rwanda more than 50 years ago and planned a full itinerary for the group to hear about the history, culture and progress CRS and its partners have made there.

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[JR: It'd be "easy" to sit back on the campus and "coast". Although, if today's Jaspers are as "high spirited" as when I was there, there's probably very little "coasting". It takes physical courage to go to these strange places. Just being in that country, that continent, is a risk. Although I'm sure the CRS folks have a vested interest in "don't let the tourists get eaten by the hippos, else they won't allow their students to come help us." Still accidents happen. Applause is well deserved!]

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http://manhattangreenclub.tumblr.com/post/17107205123/dont-vote-republican-i-think-they-want-to-kill-us

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Manhattan (College) Green Club

The purpose of The Green Club shall be to:a) Educate members about environmental issues and topics of conservationb) Bring students and faculty member together to discuss pressing ecological issues and host eventsc) Volunteer/Assist in “green” campus initiativesd) Connecting with local Community in “green” projects Email: greenclub@manhattan.edu

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Don’t vote Republican, I think they want to kill us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-projects-seeing-un-plot.html?ref=science

-Matthew

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[JR: Highly intelligent analysis on the MC Green Club blog. Guess there's no faculty moderation. I don't think this reflects well on MC. I know it makes me think: "crazy".]

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