Spring Break
Dr. Leopold Munyakazi, a professor of modern languages, has been accused of war crimes during the 1994 genocide in his native country of Rwanda.
In a packed SGA Legislative meeting last Wednesday, February 11th, the SGA Executive Board announced a new initiative: The New Deal for Goucher, which is designed to create more student jobs on campus in the coming week.
On the evening of February 9th, excited students, faculty, and various members of the Goucher community alike packed into the Kraashaur Auditorium to hear the latest Jane and Robert Meyerhoff Visiting, Professor Dr.Wangari Muta Maathai. She is the latest in a series of remarkable speakers that the Meyerhoff family's Visiting Professorship Lecture Series has brought to Goucher.
The Evelyn Meyers '37 Endowed Lecture Fund exposes Goucher students and the surrounding community to French language and culture through the presentation of a lecture or related event. Attendees witness first-hand representations of French lifestyles and experience Goucher's tradition of "Education without Boundaries".
We were all dressed in our ballet best – tights, leotard, slippers and the bun – but we were pleasantly surprised to let down our hair and throw on some tennis shoes for a different kind of dance class. Clarence Ford, a choreographer of the new Cirque du Soleil show Kooza, Kooza, had arrived in Baltimore and, on February 11, taught a master class based in hip hop and influenced by other genres of dance to Goucher dancers.
Elizabeth Spires, Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Goucher, recently published her fifth book, I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and his Stone Carvings. The book is a collection of 23 free-verse poems written by Spires and inspired by the artistry of William Edmondson.
How bad is this economic downturn going to get for the students of Goucher College? As of the third week in this semester, there are 18 students on campus who have met or exceeded their federal work-study allocation, and 33 more who are within $200 of meeting or exceeding their limit.
It's never a bad idea to re-evaluate progress in the making in order to ensure that people produce the best quality work they are capable of. We do it all the time at college, re-reading papers when we're only halfway through, changing game strategies during half-time, and revisiting goals with our professors or during breaks from school.
I'll say flat out that I'm no sports buff. I know a few names in the sports arena, but no stats, no facts, no team rosters, no fantasy football. Everything I know about sports is from what I passively absorb. However, there is one exception to this: the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Mark McGwire. Dalton Trumbo. Barry Bonds. Paul Robeson. Rafael Palmeiro. Alvah Bessie. Roger Clemens. Lester Cole. All of these men have been publicly scrutinized and disgraced. Each of their careers and reputations have been negatively affected or ruined altogether.
