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David O'Brien, director
of the College's new Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture is involved
in the creation of a national Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies,
designed to strengthen the quality of Catholic intellectual life. As one
of the founders of that new institute, he was interviewed for a Boston
Globe article that appeared on May 20.
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Professor Steve Vineberg
of the theatre department had a prolific summer. He provided a review of
the movie Shaft, for the Chronicle of Higher Education
on July 7; a review of The Perfect Storm in the same paper on July
28; and an article about Allison Janney of the television program, The
West Wing, for The New York Times on July 30. In addition,
Vineberg wrote a piece for The New York Times about the American
premiere of the play, The Designated Mourner, by Wallace Shawn;
the article appeared on June 18.
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Bruce I. Miller of the music
department received national and international attention for his discovery
of a long-lost part of a Gilbert and Sullivan song. The Associated
Press reported the news on June 19 and numerous newspapers carried
the story. It also appeared on the New York Times' Web site,
the BBC, MTV's sonicnet.com, and The
London Times. Miller was interviewed on National Public Radio's
"All
Things Considered."
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On June 19, The San Francisco
Chronicle printed an article by Jerry Lembcke, associate
professor in sociology, about media coverage of allegations concerning
a massacre of refugees at No Gun Ri, Korea, in 1950. Lembcke is the author
of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam.
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A Boston Globe article
on June 25 about the increasing depiction of women saints in stained glass
in churches featured the views of Virginia Raguin, professor in
the visual arts department.
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In the July 19 edition of the Los
Angeles Times, the debate about the use of the Crusader mascot
continued. Holy Cross was one of two schools featured and James F. Powers
of the College's history department offered his views on the Crusades and
the debate about appropriate mascots. "Almost any [mascot] you're likely
to pick has injured or hurt someone," commented Powers. " Must Detroit
drop its Lions mascot because lions are eaters of human beings and other
animals?"
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On July 26 and 27, the television
program, Entertainment Tonight, featured coverage of the
film, Harvard Man, currently in production and due in theaters in
2001. Directed by James Toback, it features actress Sarah Michelle Gellar
as a Holy Cross cheerleader who helps a Harvard basketball player strike
a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game.
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John B. Anderson '57, associate
professor of history, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article
about the Republican National Convention. The July 31 clipping featured
Anderson's assessment of the GOP's efforts to showcase diversity. "In a
sense, they are trying to package the party, saying .'We are more diverse
and open than you might have thought. Stay tuned.'"
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