Assumption Announces February Events

January 15, 2003--Assumption College is pleased to present the following events during the month of January. All events will be held on the college campus and will be free and open to the public. For more information for any one of the events, please call (508) 767-7160.

February 6—The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) is pleased to sponsor “Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks” video and discussion. The movie will be shown at 8:00 p.m. in the Hagan Campus Center. Behind every great protest movement is a community of citizens whose courage and dedication lead the charge for social change. "Mighty Times" revisits a familiar historical event and finds new stories that introduce new heroes. In the film, boycott participants and witnesses are joined by their sons, daughters, grandchildren, cousins, nieces and nephews to tell this inspiring story more vividly than ever before. The film presents the birth of the Civil Rights Movement as more than a mere history lesson for the classroom but also as a model for young activists who are looking to make a positive change in their communities.

February 7—The Worcester Institute for Senior Education (W.I.S.E.) will offer a lecture with Paul Giorgio titled “Conquering Mt. Everest” at 7:00 p.m. in the Hagan Campus Center. Mr. Giorgio reached the summit of Mt. Everest in May of 2002 as a member of the Jagged Globe Expedition. Paul is currently working with a renowned mountain photographer and explorer, Brad Washburn, to measure the snow cap on Everest.

February 10—The sociology department presents writer James Carroll, to give a lecture called “Waging Peace: Perspectives on Peace and War,” at 7:00 p.m. in Hagan Center Hall. Mr. Carroll is an award winning columnist for the "Boston Globe" and the author of several books, including "An American Requiem" and "Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews." Mr. Carroll is the keynote speaker for the Sociology and Anthropology department's three day teach-in, called "Waging Peace."

February 10—Assumption College and the HUMANARTS program are pleased to announce a concert featuring the group Yankele on at 8:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Yankele is klezmer, performed with a dose of French panache. Played by Jewish musicians in central and Eastern Europe until the turn of the twentieth century, klezmer is, in essence, music for festivities—weddings, certain Jewish holidays, carnivals, and even for playing in taverns. It is upbeat and sometimes almost euphoric, but often bittersweet with a tinge of sadness not far below the surface.

February 11—The sociology department will sponsor a panel discussion called “Religious Perspectives on Peace and War,” at 3:30 p.m. in the Salon of La Maison Francaise. This is the second event of the three-day teach-in called "Waging Peace," sponsored by the Sociology and Anthropology Department. Representatives of Catholicism, Quakers, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Native Americans speak on their perspectives on peace and war.

February 12—The Sociology department concludes its three-day teach-in with a non-violence training workshop at 3:30 p.m. in the Maison Francaise.

February 13—The Second Baptist Worcester Choir will perform a concert at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in celebration of Black History Month.

February 18—The Campus Actvities board will show a viewing of the movie, “8 Mile” at 8:00 p.m. in Hagan Center Hall. A young white rapper from Detroit (played by Eminem) channels his rage into angry lyrics and hit songs, paving a way out of his tough hometown and giving him a shot at stardom. Said to be loosely based on Eminem's own life, this feature-film debut of the controversial Grammy-winning artist is directed by Curtis Hanson. Kim Basinger co-stars as the rapper's mom, and Brittany Murphy plays his girlfriend.

February 19—The Ecumenical Institute presents a lecture by Fr. Nicholas Apostole, called “Why Can’t We All be One?” at 7:00 p.m. in Hagan Center Hall. This is the annual Bishop Bernard Flanagan Lecture in the Ecumenical Institute’s lecture series. Fr. Apostola is the Chancellor of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in American and Canada.

February 21—The OMA is pleased to announce the BLACKOUT Arts Collective for a 7:00 pm performance at Charlie’s café. BLACKOUT Arts Collective (BAC) is a non-profit organization that advocates and practices collaborative self-expression through the arts and education, as a means of activism and empowerment for artists and communities of color. BAC utilizes the arts as a tool to address both social and economic issues, and to develop viable solutions to the struggles facing communities of color. Members of BLACKOUT include teachers, social workers, psychologists and health practitioners whose field experience and training are channeled directly into BACs programming.

February 21—The d’Alzon Arts Series presents prose and poetry readings by Professors Lea Graham and Michael Land at 7:00 p.m. in the d’Alzon library. Both professors are in the English department at Assumption College.

February 25—The Office of Multicultural Affairs is sponsoring a showing of the movie “Remember the Titans,” at 8 pm in the Hagan Campus Center. It's the summer of 1971 and racial integration has arrived at Alexandria, Virginia's T.C. Williams High School. The first institution affected by the ruling is the Titans football team, with Herman Boone (DENZEL WASHINGTON), a black coach, being brought in to replace Coach Yoast, the longstanding, successful and well-respected white coach. Yoast decides to stay on as Boone's assistant, mainly to keep his white players from quitting the team and thus jeopardizing their chances of continuing in the sport. The two coaches call a reluctant truce and take their players off to summer training camp where Boone hopes to integrate the white players with the new black players, into one cohesive team where race has no bearing. Despite facing varied reactions from those around them Boone and the team set out to prove that as a cohesive and disciplined unit, they can overcome any diversity thrown their way as they set out for another victorious football season.