Media Mentions

• A lengthy profile of Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., the College's new president, was featured on Page 1 of the (Worcester) Sunday Telegram & Gazette on Aug. 6.
• The Aug. 28 edition of The Boston Globe featured an article about the creation of a videotape concerning the 1969 revision of the Catholic wedding rite. The article included the perspective of Paul Covino of the Holy Cross Chaplains Office, an adviser for the project. He is completing the written guide to accompany the videotape, due to be published in January.
• Visual Arts Professor Joanna Ziegler wrote the cover article for the fall issue of Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education. Her piece is entitled, "Wonders to Behold and Skillful Seeing: Art History and the Mission Statement."
• Fr. McFarland's inauguration ceremony received prominent coverage in the (Worcester) Telegram & Gazette on Sept. 16. The following day, the newspaper offered a photo and article about the inauguration "Fun Run," noting that 300 people joined Fr. McFarland in walking or running the 2.5-mile course around campus.
• The New York Times (Sept. 26) featured a Page 1 article entitled, "Colleges Now Courting Their Black Alumni."  Focusing on Harvard Law School, the article noted that many colleges, including Holy Cross, are reaching out to "black alumni who left campus profoundly ambivalent," and these alumni "are being welcomed back for the first time with features like Sunday gospel brunches and black music acts."
• Steve Vineberg, professor in the theatre department at Holy Cross, is in demand writing reviews for the Sunday New York Times. On Aug. 13 he offered a remembrance of Sir Alec Guinness. The following week, on Aug. 20, his article on Akira Kurosawa, the late Japanese film director, appeared in the Times' Arts and Leisure section. And, on Sunday, Oct. 1, he wrote about WB's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and praised the television program as being a "knockout."
• Holy Cross first-year students were featured in a (Worcester) Sunday Telegram & Gazette article on Oct. 1 concerning their day of service in the city of Worcester. Students raked, cleaned and painted at Elm Park and also at several Worcester public schools.  
• The Oct. 9 edition of The Boston Globe provided coverage of the planning for the 150th anniversary of the first National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Worcester in 1850. Holy Cross sociology Professor Carolyn Howe was quoted in her capacity as the president of the Worcester Women's History Project, sponsor of the anniversary celebration, held Oct. 20-22.
• The October 2000 issue of U.S. News & World Report's: Colleges & Careers noted the fact that the "first valedictorian at Holy Cross was James A. Healy, 1849, who became the first U.S. African-American Catholic bishop."