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Free
software advocate visits college
On April 18, free software
advocate Richard M. Stallman delivered a lecture titled, "The Free Software Movement
and the GNU/Linux Operating System." Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project,
launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (GNUs Not Unix). GNU
is software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and change. Today, Linux-based
variants of the GNU system are in widespread use, with an estimated 20 million
users. The recipient of the Grace Hopper Award from the Association for Computing
Machinery, Stallman was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute
of Technology in Sweden. In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship,
and in 1999 he
received the Yuri Rubinski Award.
Mock trial team finishes
sixth in nation
The Holy Cross mock trial team placed sixth out of 50 colleges and universities
that competed in the National Intercollegiate Mock Trial Tournament. The
tournament, which consisted of four rounds of competition, was held March
16-18 in St. Paul, Minn. Holy Cross also won the American Mock Trial Association
(AMTA) Spirit Award, granted to the competitor that shows the best sportsmanship,
civility and justice. In addition to team honors, Ryan Hayward '01 of Ramsey,
N.J., received All-American honors for his performance as an attorney. This
year's trial involved a lawsuit stemming from the death of an amateur mountain
climber who was killed while attempting to summit Mount Everest.
Leonard Sulski Memorial Lecture
Professor Jane Hawkins of the University of North Carolina delivered the eighth
annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture on March 29. This year's lecture
was titled, "Smoothing out the Rough Edges of Fractals." Hawkins received
her degree from Holy Cross in 1976 and continued her studies as a Marshall
Scholar at the University of Warwick in England, where she received her Ph.D.
in 1981. Her research specialties include Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.
The annual mathematical lecture series is a tribute to Leonard C. Sulski
who taught in the mathematics department at Holy Cross from 1965 until his
death from leukemia in 1991.
Rabbi Norman Cohen
returns to Alma Mater
Rabbi Norman M. Cohen delivered the lecture, "What's a Nice Jewish Boy Doing
at Holy Cross?" on March 1 in the Hogan Campus Center. A 1972 graduate of Holy
Cross, Cohen is currently the spiritual leader of Bet Shalom Congregation in
Hopkins, Minn. Prior to this position, Cohen served Rockdale Temple in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Cohen received a master of arts in Hebrew Letters degree from the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1975 and rabbinic
ordination in 1977. He has taught at numerous colleges, including Xavier University,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., and the United Theological
Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of Jewish Bible Personages in the
New Testament (University Press of America). The lecture was sponsored by the
Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and the Kraft-Hiatt Fund.
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