August 2000:

• FYP/Hanselman Ice-Cream Social, August 29, Tuesday, 6:30-7:30 PM, Hanselman Lawn.
  
  

September 2000:

• Film: Six Degrees of Separation, September 5, Tuesday, 7:00 PM, Haberlin 103.
  
  
• Presidential Installation , September 15, Friday, 3:30 PM, Hart Center. The newly appointed president of the College, Fr. McFarland, will speak. Students will also be invited to the Liturgical Celebration at 4 PM on September 14 in St. Joseph's Chapel.
  
  
• The Nasty Girl , September 24, Sunday 8 PM, Hanselman Piano Lounge, the 1991 Paul Verhoeven directed movie of the experiences of Anna Rosmus growing up in Bavaria in the 1970's. She singlehandledly confronted her town's hidden past.
  
  
• Norman Podhoretz, Jews, Catholics and Other Minorities. Kraft-Hiatt Lecture. September 26, Tuesday, 8 PM, Hogan Ball Room.
  
  
• Anna Rosmus (``The Nasty Girl'') , September 27, Wednesday, 4-5:30 PM, Dinand Browsing Room
  
  

October 2000:

• Film: A Civil Action ,October 3, Tuesday, 6:30 PM, Hanselman Piano Lounge. (See MRQE for reviews of the film.)
  
  
• Joseph William Singer, The Edges of the Field , October 19, Thursday, 4-6 PM, Haberlin 103.
  
  
• FYP Town Meeting: Living the Contradiction , October 24, Tuesday, 7-8:30 PM, Hanselman Piano Lounge. A discussion led by the FYP faculty. The impetus for the town meeting is the homily by Fr. McFarland at the Litrugical Celebration for the Inauguration of the President and the panel discussion comments by Jawad Ahsan ('01) and Renee Fay-LeBlanc ('03).
  
  

November 2000:

• Liolà , November 2, Thursday, 8 PM, Fenwick Theatre. The Theatre Department production of the play by Pirandello. Directed by Prof. Ed Isser of Theatre Department.
  
  
• Billy Collins, Poetry Reading, November 3, Friday, 7:30 PM, location TBA.
  
  
• Jessica Waldoff, Mozart's Don Giovanni, November 7, Tuesday 7-8 PM, Brooks Concert Hall
  
  
• Election Night Discussion , November 7, Tuesday 8 until "the results are in'', Hanselman Piano Lounge, led by Profs. Don Brand and Peter Ubertaccio of the Department of Political Science
  
  
• Don Giovanni, November 9, Thursday, 8 PM, Hartford Opera, at "The Bushnell''. (Buses leave at 5:30 PM.)
  
  

December 2000:

• FYP Christmas Party , December 5, Tuesday, 7:30 PM, Hanselman Piano Lounge
  
  

January 2001:

• Rodino Lecture , January 23, Tuesday, 4:00 PM, Brooks Concert Hall. Fr. Michael McFarland, S.J., President of the College of Holy Cross, will given the annual ``Richard Rodino Lecture on the Aims of the Liberal Arts.'' The Rodino Lecture is given each year in honor of the memory of Professor Richard Rodino of the Department of English, who was instrumental in the design and implementation of the First-Year Program. The tentative title of Fr. McFarland's presentation is "Studia humanitatis, pietas, and Christianitas: The Jesuit tradition in the liberal arts."
  
  
• Osvaldo Golijov, January 29, Monday, 7:00 PM, 116 Stein. A conversation with the composer of La Pasión Según San Marcos.
  

February 2001:

• Spanish/Latin American Dinner , February 6, Tuesday, 5:30 PM, Hanselman Piano Lounge. The winners of the FYP Fable Writing Contest will be announced.
  
  
• La Pasión Según San Marcos, February 8, Thursday, 8:00 PM, Symphony Hall, Boston. The United States premiere of the choral work composed by Osvaldo Golijov of the Department of Music at Holy Cross. Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Schola Cantorum de Caracas.
  
  
• Paul Beatty , February 21, Wednesday, 4:00 PM, Dinand Browsing Room. A reading by the author of White Boy Shuffle.
  
  
• Orlando Patterson: Rituals of Blood , February 22, Thursday, 4:00 PM, Brooks Concert Hall. Professor Orlando Patterson of the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, will speak on Rituals of Blood, the second book in his trilogy on race relations in the United States. He is a leading scholar on the comparative study of slavery, freedom and ethnic inequalities, his more recent work focusing on African Americans and diaspora Caribbean peoples.
  
  

March 2001:

• Adria Bernardi , March 20, Tuesday, 4:00 PM, Dinand Browsing Room. A reading by the author of In the Gathering Woods. A resident of Worcester, Adria Bernardi is a prize winning author known for her short stories, novels and translations.
  
  
• Sarah Luria , March 27, Tuesday, 7:00 PM, room TBA. Prof. Luria, of the Department of English at Holy Cross will talk to us about reading Washington, D.C. as a cultural text. Her most recent project is ``City of Conversation: The Literary Construction of 19th Century Washington,D.C.''
  
  
• Kingdom, photography by Robert ParkeHarrison, and Clay and Steel , sculpture by Barbara Diduk, March 26, 4 PM, at the The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Fenwick-O'kane, gallery talk by the artists. The exhibit is open from March 12 to April 14, 2001.
  
  
• Washington, D.C.: A Cultural Text, March 29 to April 1. The First-Year Program will be visiting the nations capital.
  
  

April 2001:

• Chicago , April 5, Thursday, 8:00 PM, Fenwick Theatre. Written by Maurine Watkins and directed by Steve Vineberg, Chicago was the source of the celebrated Broadway musical of the same title. Roxie Hart shoots her lover dead when he tries to run out on her. But in the wild, corrupt Chicago of the Roaring Twenties, beautiful jazz-baby murderesses don't get the chair --especially when they hire a shyster like Billy Flynn to defend them.
  
  
• In a culture of the here and now, how then shall we live? April 24, Tuesday, 7:00 PM, Hanselman Piano Lounge. Town meeting.
  
  

May 2001:

• FYP Banquet May 1, Tuesday, 6:30 PM, Hogan Ballroom.