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Harpur at "Battle of the BU's"
Rowdy fans, deafening cheers, and wild plays that put everyone on the edges of their seats. Harpur College joined the action at the "Battle of the BU's" as the Bearcats took on the Boston University Terriers. The women played on February 8 and the men followed on February 9, both in the West Gym. Follow this link for photos.
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Dean Mileur gives the latest Harpur news on WNBF radio at the women's game. |
Anthony Green `03, one of the team's best, gets ready to shoot. |
Harpur College Dean Mileur personally greeted fans at both games and hosted a halftime reception on the 8th. WNBF Radio, which broadcast both games, also interviewed Dean Mileur during halftime at the women's game. MSG/Empire Sports Network filled the gym with cameras and reporters as the men's game was broadcast on TV.
The School of Management co-hosted the men's game with Harpur and during a break in the game, the two schools went neck and neck as a student representing each school had a free throwing contest. Dean Mileur and SOM Dean Upinder Dhillon hit the courts and cheered on their own student. Harpur sophomore Ross Maltz `05 sunk the most baskets and walked away with a $250 gift certificate to the campus bookstore.
The Bearcats fell to the Terriers in both games, but not without a good fight! Final scores: 85-82 for the men and 61-49 for the women.
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Join our third annual Harpur on Broadway Theater Party on Thursday, April 3, 2003, with a pre-theater reception at Sardi's, followed by GYPSY at the Schubert Theater!
Come see a revival of the famous GYPSY, starring Bernadette Peters, with original choreography by Jerome Robbins.
Tickets are limited so please reserve early.
For more information, call 607-777-4278 or contact harprsvp@binghamton.edu.
For more information about the musical, check out http://www.gypsythemusical.com/about.html.
Watch future Hotlines for more details!
Faculty Spotlight: Maria Mazziotti Gillan
All my life, people have expected me to be strong,
to carry them like sacks on my back,
to juggle several lives in my hands
without dropping anything. "Amazing,"
they say, "How do you manage?"
and I kept on going.
Only my mother was stronger than me
who always thought of myself as weak
and small by comparison,
until she died
and I had to step into her shoes
and was shocked to find how well they fit me.
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More Books Written or Edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Italian Women in Black Dresses (Gunerica, 2003) Growing up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (co-edited with daughter Jennifer Gillan) (Penguin Group, 1999) Things My Mother Never Told Me (Gunerica, 1999) Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American (CO-edited with daughter Jennifer Gillan) (Viking Penguin, 1999) New Jersey Poetry Resource Book (Passaic County Community College Poetry Center, 1996) Where I Come From: Selected and New Poems (Gunerica, 1995) Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (CO-edited with daughter Jennifer Gillan) (Viking Penguin, 1994) Winter Light: Poems (Chantry Press, 1994) Italian Heritage (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1991) Weather of Old Seasons (Cross-cultural Communications, 1989) Flowers from the Tree of Night (Chantry Press, 1981) |
By Maria Mazziotti Gillan, from "Mothers and Daughters" in her book "Things My Mother Told Me" (Gunerica, 1999)
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan |
When you read Maria Mazziotti Gillan's poetry, you feel that you know her. It is as if you have grown up alongside her and experienced every aspect of her Italian, post-World War II upbringing in Patterson, NJ.
Gillan draws inspiration for her touching and revealing poetry from her everyday life. "In the beginning, I thought I had to write in the old literary tradition like Keates and Shelley," she said. After publishing her first book in 1980, however, one of her professors at Drew University, where she studied for a doctorate, told her that her best poem was one she had written about her father entitled "Betrayals." At the time, it was the only poem she had ever written about her own life. Gillan also admired poets such as Sylvia Plath and Alan Ginsberg. "They were the first ones to really put themselves on the pages," she noted.
Gillan observed that women have made admirable strides in poetry over the past 50 years. But she has also seen a recent backlash of conservatism. "I want to write the kind of poem that makes the hair on my back stand up," she said. Some contemporary readers and critics, however, feel threatened by such personal poetry. "I don't think they're comfortable being opened up in that way," she said.
Gillan has published 12 books (see sidebar), but her most successful book is her recent work, "Italian Women in Black Dresses." All of her books have received second and third printings, which Gillan said is rare for a small press, and recently, National Public Radio broadcast readings of her poems, "In My Family" and "After School on Ordinary Days." She also travels frequently for public readings, has visited places ranging from Harvard to University of California at Santa Barbara, and she has blazed a trail across the country reading her work at writers' conferences and universities. A Chinese writers' group even invited her to China recently for a reading, but she could not attend because of her own family commitments.
GIllan believes that everyone has a story to tell. A poet lives inside all of us. "Everyone is teachable," she said. "I try not to judge students against one another and I get them to move ahead." She has also seen some amazing work here at Harpur College. "The students are of such high quality! They're doing some moving, risky work," she said, and she also predicted there are going to be some prize winning books from them.
Gillan recommends that all aspiring writers be tenacious in their work. "Keep going, even when you feel everyone else is ignoring you," she advises. This, in fact, is exactly what Gillan has done. Indeed, in 1980, she started the poetry center at Passaic County Community College in New Jersey. She also came here as a visiting writer in 1999 and eventually took over directorship of Harpur College's creative writing program in 2001.
She recently hosted a conference called "Speaking of Jersey: Italian American Women on the Garden State." An anthology with its roots in that conference, entitled "Italian American Writers on New Jersey," edited by Gillan along with her daughter, Jennifer Gillan, and Edbige Guita, will be published in October 2003.
This is a career she has always aspired to have. "When I was seventeen, I said I wanted to be writer," she recalled. "In fact, in my high school yearbook, I said my ambition was to become a famous writer." Still, she is a bit surprised at her own success, "Who would have thought it would come true?" Looking back, Gillan said, "It's been a fun journey."
Harpur Student Named Truman Finalist
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Alexandra Croswell is among 212 national finalists for the Truman Foundation Scholarship. |
During the week before Thanksgiving 2002, several BU students gave over 100 hours of community service to local nonprofit organizations. The organizational efforts of Alexandra Croswell `04, a discovery assistant in College-in-the-Woods, made it possible.
A double major in Political Science and Philosophy, Politics and Law, she also holds a 3.92 grade point average and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Golden Key Honor Society, and Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society. Croswell has made the Dean's List every semester at Harpur College.
Now, in recognition of Croswell's academic accomplishments and her outstanding service to the community, which also includes volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, the Truman Foundation has named her a finalist for the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Congress established the Truman Scholarship Foundation in 1975 as the federal memorial to America's 33rd president. If Croswell wins, her scholarship will cover all of her graduate school expenses and also provide her with valuable leadership training and career advice.
Croswell is among 212 finalists who come from 144 different colleges and universities. All will compete for roughly 75 scholarships that each provide $3,000 for the student's senior year of college and a yearly award of $30,000 for the student's graduate studies in preparation for a career in public service. Truman Scholars also receive opportunities for internships with the federal government.
Recipients must be U.S. citizens, have outstanding leadership and communication skills, be in the top quarter of their class, and also show a commitment to careers in the government or in nonprofit organizations.
Croswell said she was "really surprised" that she was a finalist. "Janice McDonald from the Harpur Dean's office called me the morning of my birthday and gave me the news," she recalled. "It was the best birthday gift!"
It is a "gift" she certainly deserves. After the events of September 11, 2001, Croswell became interested in researching methods to thwart financing of terrorism. She therefore enrolled in, and later became a teaching assistant for, Robert Ostergard's "War and Terrorism" course.
Croswell also participated last summer in a week long conference at Pace University entitled "Democracy at a Critical Juncture: The Regional, National and Global Implications of 9/11" and, this year, she will help coordinate the conference.
Croswell hopes to attend Cornell Law School and enroll in the Berger International Legal Studies Program, where she hopes to structure her education around international legal issues. She also hopes to pursue a Master's in International Relations, which Cornell offers as a joint degree program between their law school and their college of arts and sciences.
Indeed, Donald Blake, Harpur College's associate dean for academic affairs and Binghamton University's faculty representative for the Truman Scholarship program stated, "A thumbnail sketch of Alexandra would definitely employ the words energy, drive, focus, and intelligence, as well as caring and compassionate."
A panel of judges will interview Croswell on March 12 in New York City.
Recent Harpur graduate named to USA Today academic team
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David Goldberg during his internship at the White House. |
David Goldberg, a Harpur College history major who graduated in December, has been named to USA Today's All-USA Academic Team, which annually recognizes the nation's top college students.
Goldberg was among 20 students named to the second team by a panel of judges drawn from colleges and academic organizations. The first, second and third teams were selected from nearly 500 students nominated by colleges and universities nationwide.
Judges considered grades, leadership, activities and, most importantly, how students extend their intellectual talents beyond the classroom. Criteria were developed in consultation with the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the American Council on Education and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Goldberg has a 3.9 cumulative GPA and is a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa. His senior thesis, which analyzed how the Holocaust is presented in high school textbooks, earned highest honors in the History Department. Outside the classroom, he tutored and mentored at-risk middle and high school students and advised his college peers through the Discovery program. In addition to holding numerous positions in the Student Association, he worked with the New York Public Interest Research Group on its 2002 Rock the Vote registration drive.
Goldberg spent the fall of 2001 traveling the world, visiting 21 countries, in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program. Last fall, he was an intern in the White House in the Office of Management and Budget as part of the SUNY Washington Semester Program. While there, he was selected to attend the 55th Annual Conference on US Affairs at West Point and participated in a panel discussion on domestic influences on foreign policy.
Goldberg is enrolled in the master's program at Hofstra University this spring, where he plans to pursue a career in education and public service.
The following article appeared in the February 14 issue of Pipe Dream. Our alumni and faculty from the 60's and 70's may remember the activist movement of the era and see a parallel to the attitudes of our students today.
Harpur
alumni: yesterday's war is still relevant
by Alice Hunt
Reprinted with permission of Pipe Dream
Fluttering in the icy Binghamton air from a window in the Library Tower is a white sheet with "22 Million Iraqis, 1 Saddam" emblazoned in red paint.
Two posters hang in the window of the Graduate Student Lounge. "Bush ? America" reads one. "Books Not Bombs" reads the other.
A student walking in the Union wears a handmade shirt. "Regime change starts at home," says the front of the shirt. "Kris says no to war and so should you," says the back. The signs are small, but political activism is here, and it is finding its way back into the life of Binghamton University.
Activism has strong roots on this campus. Many Binghamton alumni remember how politically involved those on campus were.
"It's always been one of the most highly politicized campuses in the country," said Ethan Fishman '65, a political science professor at South Alabama University.
"Harpur was one of the first schools opposed to the war," Fishman said, referring to BU by its former name.
Arnold Weissberg '70 was a student at Harpur College during this era. He was a member of the Young Socialist Alliance and the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
Weissberg said that the height of campus activism was from 1966 to 1970, where it reached a peak with the events at Kent State University in Ohio and the bombing of Cambodia.
"After the Kent State shootings, the game was just over," Weissberg recalled. "Almost every campus in the country shut down. With the acquiescence of the administration, we had organized carefully. We didn't throw rocks and didn't plant bombs."
The school year of 1969-70 was especially turbulent. In April 1970, the United States expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia. During a protest following the invasion of Cambodia, four Kent State students were shot and killed by national guardsmen.
In response to your much-appreciated feedback, the Harpur Hotline has developed a regular feature of alumni news. Please send us anything you want: publications, promotions, marriages, babies, graduations, retirements, etc. Many thanks to everyone who shared their stories! Here's what some of your fellow Harpur alumni and friends are doing:
Harpur College mourns the loss of Professor Emeritus Paul Weigand, who died February 4, 2003. In 1948, Weigand began teaching German at the original Triple Cities College, which later became Harpur College, and retired in 1980. Born in Austria, Weigand earned a B.A. from College of the City of New York in 1932, an M.A. from there in 1937, and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1947. Through his career, he published several scholarly articles on German literature.
1978: Andrew Weiss told the Hotline, "After graduation I lived in Boulder, Colorado for a number of years where I was involved in public interest advocacy. I then spent a ridiculously long time as a graduate student in the history department at Cornell University before leaving ABD. Now I work at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ, where I am the coordinator of social science testing for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)." Weiss and his wife, Eve Niedergang, have two children, Miriam (10) and Sam (6). Weiss is still in touch with his former roommate, Eric Grabstein '78 and his wife Gail Resnikoff '78.
1982: Penny Lieberman graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1985 and is a partner in the national law firm, Jackson Lewis LLP, dedicated exclusively to representing management in all aspects of workplace law. After 14 years of commuting to her firm's New York City office, last year Lieberman moved much closer to home, to her firm's White Plains office. She and her husband and two daughters, ages 7 1/2 and 10, reside in Scarsdale, NY where she frequently bumps into fellow Binghamton alumni.
1983: President George W. Bush intends to nominate Michael J. Garcia to Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Border and Transportation Security). Garcia is currently the Acting Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization at the Department of Justice. He previously served as the Assistant Secretary fo Commerce for Export Enforcement. From 1992 to 2001, Garcia served as Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York where he participated in the successful prosecution of four defendants in the first World Trade Center bombing trial. From 1990 to 1992, he was a law clerk for the New York Court of Appeals and from 1989 until 1990, Garcia worked at the law firm of Cahill Gordon and Reindel. He earned a Master's degree from the College of William and Mary and graduated from Albany Law School.
1985: Robert "Bernie" Bernstein and his wife, Michelle, are happy to announce the birth of their son, Jacob Dylan, born September 6, 2002.
1986: Peter Bohush of Shrewsbury, MA, has launched his own residential and commercial real estate firm, Wicked Good Homes. Bohush also hosts and produces a companion television show of the same name seen by more than 200,000 households in central Massachusetts. Check out the company's website, www.wickedgoodhomes.com for more information.
1987: Dan Freyer, his wife Joanne, and sons Spencer (3) and Dylan (1), recently moved to Los Angeles from Washington D.C. In January, Freyer's song "I Still Believe in Bigfoot" was broadcast on CNN and he was interviewed on BBC radio London about the song, an excerpt of which is available on his website, www.Bigfootblues.com. A veteran of WHRW, he is hoping the station will "get hip to this joyous tune." Fryer would love to hear from Binghamton friends and classmates via email through his website.
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1996: Tamara Gorman and David Larsen were married November 9th, 2002 in Waltham, MA at Stonehurst, The Paine Estate, a mansion recently featured on "This Old House." Gorman is the daughter of Carol Frank '70 and the late Paul F. Gorman '73 and the niece of Dr. Barbara Frank `66. Many Binghamton alumni attended the wedding, including Wendy Goertzel '96, Thomas Murphy '71, Ronna (Fichtenbaum) Gottheiner '71, Kathleen Kretzmer `91, Eric Kretzmer '73, and Michael Barth '70. Several former Binghamton students also attended, including Robert Sager (1966), Joanne Moar (1968) and Tracy (McLain) Sloan (1993-1994). Gorman earned an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998. |
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