Abdulaziz Sachedina To Discuss the Origins of Shiism at Amherst College Dec. 7

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.— Abdulaziz Sachedina, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, has been giving a series of lectures at Amherst College this fall on “The Ideals and Realities of the Islamic Community.” Sachedina will present the final lecture, “Modern Theological-Juridical Shiite leadership” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College. Free and open to the public, the talk is sponsored by the religion department and the Willis D. Wood Fund.

Sachedina, author of Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism, is professor of Islamic and Shi’ite Studies, theological and juridical studies in the department of religious studies at the University of Virginia. He was educated at the University of Toronto, the Aligarh Muslim University in India and the Ferdowski University in Iran. He has taught in Canada at Wilfred Laurier, Waterloo and McGill Universities, at Haverford College and at the University of Jordan, Amman. Born to a West Indian family in Tanzania, Sachedina has been praised for his reassertion of “Islam’s potential as a source of tolerance and pluralism” (Middle East Journal). A prominent member of the Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism objective within the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Sachedina works to bring knowledge of Islam as a peace-building religion to the general public. He is currently conducting a study titled “Islamic Law for Muslim Physicians: The Spiritual Foundations of Biomedical Ethics in Islam.”

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Amherst College Jazz Ensemble to Perform at Buckley Recital Hall on Dec. 1; Additional Jazz Concerts Dec. 4, 6, 8

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.— On Friday, Dec. 1, at 8 p.m., the Amherst College Jazz Ensemble will perform in Buckley Recital Hall of the Arms Music Building at Amherst College, kicking off a string of jazz concerts that will run throughout the month of December. The Jazz Ensemble, directed by Bruce Diehl, will liven up Buckley with musical selections by Count Basie, George Banson, Santiago Cerda, Thelonious Monk, Les Hooper and others. Several students, especially seniors, will perform as featured soloists. The concert, sponsored by the Amherst College Music Department, is free and open to the public.

The music department will also feature three other concerts on December 4, 6 and 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Friedmann Room of the Amherst College Keefe Campus Center. These concerts will feature original jazz compositions, arrangements and tunes drawn from the American songbook. For more information, please contact Bruce Diehl at 413/542-8303 or visit the Jazz@Amherst Website.

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Christmas Vespers at Amherst College Dec. 3

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—The annual Christmas Vespers service will be held on Sunday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. in Johnson Chapel at Amherst College. The “Festival of Lessons and Carols” is sponsored by the Amherst College Christian Fellowship, the Newman Club and the Protestant and Roman Catholic Religious Advisors. Admission is free, and the public is invited.

Mallorie Chernin will direct the Amherst College Choral Society, assisted by Kate Vogele, Mount Holyoke College ’06. Jay Buchman ’06 and Elly Jessop ’08 will direct the Amherst College Madrigal Singers. Other musicians will include organist James Maes and trumpeters Douglas Purcell and David Reinhardt ’09, both of the Amherst College Music Department.

The Choral Society will perform music of Richard Zgodava, David Wilcock, Javier Busto, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Eric Whitacre and others. Members of the college community will read the scripture lessons. The congregation will be asked to join in the singing of traditional carols and the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah.

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Discussion of "Should The New York Times be Prosecuted under the Espionage Statutes?" at Amherst College Dec. 6

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—Political essayist Gabriel Schoenfeld and George Freeman ’71, the assistant general counsel at The New York Times, will discuss “Should The New York Times Be Prosecuted under the Espionage Statutes?” at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6, in the Paino Lecture Hall in the Earth Sciences Building at Amherst College. One in a series of lectures sponsored by the Colloquium on the American Founding at Amherst, the talk is free and open to the public.

The author of The Return of Anti-Semitism (2004), which Publishers’ Weekly praised for its “pungent, well-written, argumentative analysis,” Schoenfeld has written on world affairs for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the New Republic and other publications, including Commentary magazine, where he is the senior editor.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Freeman is an adjunct professor at New York University, where he teaches media law. He has taught at the University of Miami Law School and served as assistant to the dean at Vermont Law School. As assistant general counsel of the Times since 1992, Freeman has been involved in newsroom counseling, antitrust and distribution problems, employment relations and business counseling involving all divisions of the Times. Currently chair of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section’s First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee and past chair of the ABA’s Forum on Communication Law, Freeman has also chaired the New York State Bar Association Media Law Committee and is a frequent lecturer on First Amendment issues.

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Kwanzaa Celebration at Amherst College Dec. 3

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—Amherst College will present its annual Kwanzaa celebration at 12 noon on Sunday, Dec. 3, in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College. Sponsored by the Dean of Students Office and the Black Students Union at the college, the program and traditional feast are free and open to the public.

From the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza,” meaning “first fruits,” Kwanzaa is the week-long African-American holiday observance held from Dec. 26 to Jan.1. Founded in 1966 by Ron Karenga (Ron Everett), Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday, but a cultural one based on the first harvest celebrations celebrated in Africa. The seven days of Kwanzaa are dedicated to seven principles: Umoja (unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination), Ujima (collective work and responsibility), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity) and Imani (faith).

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Poet Peter Covino '85 to Read at Amherst College Dec. 7

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—Poet Peter Covino, a 1985 graduate of Amherst College and author of two collections of poems, will read at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115) at Amherst College. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Of Covino’s collection, Cut Off the Ears of Winter, W.S. DiPiero has said, “These poems are acts of discovery.” Donald Revell says, “Here are psalms against the sinister. Here, too, are eclogues of mercy.[…] This is a book of virtues better far than our deserving.”

Born and raised in Italy, Covino earned an M.S. degree from the Columbia School of Social Work after graduating from Amherst. He now teaches English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Columbia, The Journal, The Paris Review, Verse and The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. He is one of the founding editors of Barrow Street and Barrow Street Press. Covino’s chapbook, Straight Boyfriend, received the Frank O’Hara Prize in Poetry in 2001.

The Amherst College Creative Writing Center sponsors a yearly reading series featuring both emerging and established authors. For more information, please call 413/542-8200 or visit the center's website.

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Russian Folk Songs in Memory of Yulya Zapolskaya at Amherst Center for Russian Culture Dec. 10

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.— The Amherst Center for Russian Culture will present: “Yulya’s Song: The Love, Life and Art of a Russian-American Singer and Songwriter” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 10, in the Center for Russian Culture in Webster Hall at Amherst College.

The program will present a songbook commemorating the Russian singer Yulya Zapolskaya, late wife of Thomas Whitney ’37, the founder of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture. The performance will feature Yelena Dudochkin, voice; Jakov Jakoulov, piano; and Roman Yakub, narrator. The concert and a reception to follow are free and open to the public.

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Stephen Nissenbaum To Speak on “Christmas With the Dickinsons” at Amherst College Dec. 7

November 30, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens will present a lecture by historian and author Stephen Nissenbaum on “Christmas with the Dickinsons: Bedpost Stockings and Laurel Wreaths” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, at the Amherst College Alumni House on Spring Street. The talk is free and open to the public.

From the stocking hung on Emily Dickinson’s bedpost when she was a girl to the scandalous hanging of laurel wreaths on the front door at The Evergreens, Christmas in the Dickinson family did not go unnoticed. The talk will discuss the changing meanings of Christmas in 19th-century America through the practices of two generations of the Dickinson family.

Stephen Nissenbaum is the author of The Battle for Christmas (1996), a finalist that year for the Pulitzer Prize, and a number of other notable books. He is professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont. He has been awarded several major fellowships during his career and is an elected member of both the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society. For the past several years he has been among the distinguished lecturers at the Organization of American Historians. For decades, Nissenbaum has been a consultant, on- and off-camera, to many humanities films aired on PBS and the History Channel. He has served as president of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and been a member of the advisory boards of Historic Deerfield, Inc., and the Emily Dickinson Homestead.

The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens is owned by the Trustees of Amherst College. The museum has a separate board of governors and, with limited support from the college, is expected to fund its operating and capital improvement objectives independently. Through December 1, the museum is open Wednesday and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. On Saturday, Dec. 9, from 1 to 4 p.m., the museum will offer its final program of the year, the annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Open House, this year with hints of Christmas. The Emily Dickinson Museum is a member of Museums10, a partnership of 10 museums in the Pioneer Valley. For more information about the museum, please call 413/542-8161 or visit the the museum's website.

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Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp to Speak at Amherst College on Dec. 4

November 15, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.— Wendy Kopp, founder and president of the national teacher corps Teach for America, will give a talk titled “One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way” in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Teach for America—an organization that recruits outstanding recent college graduates to teach for two years in the nation’s underprivileged urban and rural public schools—strives for a long-term goal that one day all children will have access to quality education. Kopp considers college graduates to be the driving force: “There is no doubt that our country will be a better place if we can find new ways of inspiring more of our nation’s most sought-after young people to pursue civil service,” she says. “Their persistent idealism, fresh perspectives and endless energy will help us conquer both the new challenges facing our nation and the old and intransigent ones that have plagued us for decades.” TFA is an initiative that Kopp began in 1989 as an extension of her senior thesis at Princeton, and from its humble beginnings the organization has grown into one of the top 10 employers of college graduates in the country, with 4,400 corps members and 12,000 alumni who reach 25 communities across the nation.

Kopp serves on the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, the boards of The New Teacher Project and the KIPP Foundation, and the advisory boards of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the National Council on Teacher Quality. In 1993 she became the youngest person and first woman to receive Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest honor the school confers on its undergraduate alumni. In 1994, Time magazine identified her as one of the country’s 40 most promising leaders under 40. She holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University, where she participated in the undergraduate program of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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Philosopher Peter Kivy To Speak on “First the Music, then the Words” at Amherst College Nov. 30

November 13, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.— Peter Kivy, the Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, will give a talk on the topic “First the Music, then the Words: Philosophical Reflections of a ‘Philosophical’ Opera” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30, in Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115) at Amherst College. Organized by the Amherst College department of philosophy and funded by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science, Kivy’s talk is free and open to the public.

Kivy’s field is aesthetics and the philosophy of art. His early work is represented by The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics (1976, second edition 2003). In the early ’70s, he worked in Anglo-American analytic aesthetics, writing on the problems surrounding Frank Sibley’s seminal paper on “Aesthetic Concepts.”

In the late ’70s Kivy turned his attention to the philosophical problem of the emotions in music. The philosophy of music is now his principal interest, although he still works in the 18th century and in contemporary analytic aesthetics. The music project resulted in the publication of five books, dealing with musical expression, musical representation, opera, pure instrumental music and musical performance.

In his most recent book, Philosophies of Arts (1997), Kivy departed somewhat from the musical problems, and tried to deal with issues centering on how the various arts differ. This has led him to become deeply interested in the philosophy of literature. His most recent book is The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius (2001).

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Kent W. Faerber Elected to Lead Emily Dickinson Museum Board

November 9, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens has announced that Kent W. Faerber, who has served on the museum’s board of governors since its founding in 2003, has been elected as its new chair. Faerber, the president of the Springfield, Mass.-based Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, takes over leadership of the museum’s board from Dickinson biographer Polly Longsworth, who has served as chair since the museum’s formation.

Longsworth is stepping down from her duties as chair to complete work on a long-planned biography of the poet, but will remain on the museum’s board. She has had a remarkably successful tenure as the chair of the museum, which was formed in July 2003 when the Dickinson Homestead, the home of poet Emily Dickinson, merged with The Evergreens, the home of Dickinson’s brother Austin and sister-in-law Susan. Highlights of Longsworth’s leadership include the museum’s successful completion of its first capital campaign and the adoption of a master plan that serves as the long-range blueprint for the restoration and improvement of the museum site.

“All of us owe Polly Longsworth a huge thanks for serving as the prime mover of the momentous events of the past several years,” stated Faerber. “The merger, the building of a highly accomplished, professional staff, the stabilization of the finances of the museum with regular fundraising, the restorations, the master plan and the first successful capital campaign all would not have been possible without her extraordinary breadth of skills and hard work. It will be impossible to fill her shoes, but she has formed a strong organization, and I am both grateful and excited to be given the opportunity to build on her work by taking the museum to the next level.”

“What Dickinson wrote of people is visible as well in their institutions,” said Longsworth: “‘We never know how high we are/Till we are asked to rise . . .’ The small band of board and staff who began this task has proved to be a mighty force, and Kent is key among them. I’m confident from years of working with Kent, beginning as fellow trustees of The Evergreens, that he has the energy and commitment to carry the museum forward. We’ve chosen the right leader at the right time.”

Faerber’s appointment as board chair comes at a vital time for the young institution. The new master plan, which emerged from the board’s strategic vision for the museum, identifies urgent infrastructure concerns, as well as major restoration and site development goals that the museum will attempt to embark upon over the next decade. Fundraising will undoubtedly be a top priority of Faerber’s chairmanship as the execution of the full master plan, estimated at $13 million in today’s dollars, must be phased in as funds permit. As he makes clear, the prospect challenges but does not daunt him.

“Emily Dickinson is considered not only America’s finest poet, but one of the greatest in the English language. We’re so lucky to have available the single site where she lived with her family and wrote her poetry. Preservation and restoration are within reach of possibility,” said Faerber. Noting the many strengths of the museum, he added, “To stand in the bedroom where she wrote, to experience the home and landscape where she breathed and created, is a rare gift to those familiar with the power of her literary legacy. As more and more people come to Amherst to experience that gift, we’re confident the Emily Dickinson Museum will become one of the most important literary sites in the world.”

Faerber has served on the Emily Dickinson Museum’s board of governors since 2003. Prior to that appointment, he was a trustee of the Martha Dickinson Bianchi Trust, which owned The Evergreens, and was instrumental in the transfer of the trust’s assets to Amherst College, resulting in the establishment of the Emily Dickinson Museum.

A 1963 graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Faerber has served since 1999 as the president of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, a Springfield, Mass.-based foundation with grant-making responsibilities for $114 million in assets supporting the Connecticut River Valley. From 1977 through 1994, he served as Amherst College’s Alumni Secretary and then its chief development officer.

While serving as a consultant for Amherst College from 1995 through 1999, he prepared a report on the assets that would be available if The Evergreens and the Dickinson Homestead were merged, sparking his own interest in the possibility of a combined museum, and serving as a basis for the subsequent consideration of such a merger. He has also been active in a number of other professional, civic and charitable organizations, both locally and nationally.

In addition to Faerber’s appointment, the museum announced the election of two new members to the board of governors, Dr. William P. Gorth and Kenneth Rosenthal.

Gorth is co-founder and president of National Evaluation Systems, an Amherst, Mass.-based educational testing company. He is active in several civic and professional organizations, and serves on the boards of Cooley Dickinson Hospital, the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Gorth and his wife, Janet, live in South Amherst.

Rosenthal is a 1960 graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School. From 1966 through 1976, he participated in the founding of Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., serving as the college’s treasurer and secretary. Most recently, until his retirement to Amherst this year, he was president of The Seeing Eye, Inc. of Morristown, N.J., an organization that breeds, trains and provides guide dogs for the visually impaired.

The Emily Dickinson Museum is dedicated to educating diverse audiences about the poet’s life, family, creative work, times and enduring relevance. The museum also is committed to preserving and interpreting the Homestead and The Evergreens as historical resources for the benefit of scholars and the general public.

The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens is owned by the Trustees of Amherst College. The museum has its own board of governors, which is charged with responsibility for raising its operating and capital funds. In November, the museum is open Wednesday and Saturday, 1-5 p.m. The Emily Dickinson Museum is a member of Museums10, a partnership of 10 museums in the Pioneer Valley. For more information about the museum, please call 413/542-8161 or visit the museum's website.

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Amherst College Professor Lawrence Douglas Says Hussein Trial “Not a Complete Sham”

November 7, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—“The trial of Saddam Hussein was not a complete sham,” writes Lawrence Douglas, associate professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College, in The Jurist, but “it won’t do simply to focus on the quality of the justice dispensed. For the trial had other goals, and we need to ask whether these were accomplished. Chief among these was the didactic purpose of the trial.” A leading scholar of War Crimes trials, Douglas is the author of The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (2001).

“Like the Nuremberg, Eichmann and Papon trials, the Hussein proceeding meant to clarify the historical record; it sought to give an accounting to an Iraqi and international audience of the crimes perpetrated by Saddam’s regime,” Douglas says. “Here, however, the trial stumbled. In part, this was a result of the very focus of the trial. Eager to establish a manageable case, the prosecution focused on a relatively minor act—the reprisal killings of 148 Shiites in Dujail in 1982. While this narrow focus might have made prosecutorial sense, the crimes themselves pale in comparison to the violence that grips the Iraqi nation on a daily basis. This fact alone creates a strong case for delaying Saddam’s execution until the completion of his present trial for atrocities committed against Iraqi Kurds during the Anfal military campaign in the late 1980s. That trial at least promises to do fuller justice to the abominable crimes of Saddam’s regime.”

“The didactic value” of this proceeding “was also upset by Saddam’s showmanship,” Douglas writes. “Stealing a page from the playbook of Slobodan Milosevic, whose death in March deprived the Hague Tribunal from ever passing judgment, Saddam showed himself more than adept at disrupting proceedings.”

“By upstaging the trial as a didactic exercise, Saddam also undermined its function as a tool of reconciliation,” but it’s too early to call the Hussein trial a failure, Douglas writes, noting that “in the decades directly following the Nuremberg trial, the majority of Germans viewed the trial with contempt, as an exercise in victor’s justice. Now Nuremberg is generally viewed in Germany with respect—as an event that prodded Germans to a collective reckoning with their troubled past.”

“At the heart of these [Holocaust] trials,” Douglas wrote in The Memory of Judgment in2001, “lay competing conceptions of the law itself. On one hand, the trials sought to introduce sober, rule-bound authority into a terrain of lawlessness by bringing perpetrators of atrocity to justice. On the other hand, the trials sought to serve the interests of history and memory.” Douglas’s 2001 book considered the leading trials of the perpetrators and deniers of the Holocaust—the first Nuremberg trial, the trials of Adolf Eichmann and Ivan Demjanjuk in Israel, the French trial of Klaus Barbie and the Canadian trials of Holocaust negationist Ernst Zundel. He demonstrated that some trials, such as Nuremberg and Eichmann’s, succeeded in serving both justice and history, while others, such as the Zundel and Demjanuk trials, failed Douglas defends trials of “traumatic history” as “dramatic and necessary acts of legal and social will.”

A professor at Amherst since 1990, Douglas received an A.B. degree from Brown University, an M.A. from Columbia and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His essays and commentary have appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, The TLS and The New Republic.

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Amherst College Professor Scott Kaplan Receives Fulbright Scholarship for Study in Chile

November 6, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.— Scott F. Kaplan, an associate professor of computer science at Amherst College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to travel and conduct research on “Adding Experimentation and Analysis to Systems Courses: Memory Management Techniques for Reducing Process Switching Delays” at the Federico Santa Maria Technical University and Adolfo Ibanez University in Valparaiso, Chile from January through June.

A 1995 graduate of Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Kaplan has taught at the college since 1999, the year he received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. His research in computer memory has concentrated on compressed caching.

Kaplan is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries in the 2006-07 academic year as Fulbright Scholars. Established in 1946 by the late Senator William J. Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Scholar Program seeks to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the world.

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Jazz ’Round Midnight at Amherst College Nov. 10

November 6, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—The Amherst College Jazz Ensemble will present “Jazz ’Round Midnight” at 11:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 10, in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center at Amherst College. At Amherst, ’round midnight means that the free concert indeed begins at 11:30 p.m., and that the music will include the theme song by Thelonious Monk, as well as music of Woody Herman, Count Basie, Nancy Wilson and Les Hooper. Elegant refreshments will be served.

This is the first of several performances by jazz students at Amherst College on Homecoming Weekend. All six jazz combos will join the jazz ensemble in performance during the reception held in the Coolidge Cage after the football game on Saturday, Nov. 11. An alumni jam session will follow the Choral Society Concert on Saturday, Nov. 11, at around 10 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall. More information is available at the Jazz@Amherst Website.

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Ukrainian Scholar Mariya Ustymenko Working at Amherst College on Fulbright Grant

November 6, 2006
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AMHERST, Mass.—Mariya Ustymenko, an assistant professor of English at the Institute of Philology, Department of English Language for Humanitarian Faculties at the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University in Kyiv, Ukraine is doing research on the topic of “American Women Poets and the Quest for Self-Identity” at Amherst College this academic year on a Fulbright Foreign Scholar grant.

Ustymenko’s work at Amherst is supported by Karen Sanchez-Eppler, professor of American Studies and English at Amherst.

Ustymenko is one of approximately 800 international faculty and professionals who will travel to the United States in the 2006-07 academic year as Fulbright Scholars. Established in 1946 by the late Senator William J. Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Scholar Program seeks to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the world.

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