MSU Day in Trenton: A celebration in the
state's capital
Trenton will be overflowing with Red Hawk pride next week.
A day of activities had been planned for Monday, March 25, when the state's
capital celebrates Montclair State University Day.
Montclair State alumni legislators and staff will start the day with a
breakfast in their honor at the State House. Among those expected to attend
are Sen. Andrew Ciesla '75, Sen. Sharpe James '58, Assemblyman Scott Garrett
'81 and Assemblywoman Barbara Buono '75.
President Susan A. Cole will outline plans for expansion and growth at
their alma mater. The state leaders also will learn about opportunities
to return to campus to speak to political science and pre-law classes.
Approximately 50 Montclair State students will participate in the event,
which will include a special tour of the State House and the opportunity
to attend a legislative voting session.
The day-long program will culminate with a cocktail reception at the War
Memorial where attendees can view displays from each of MSU's colleges
and schools. Members of the governor's office, cabinet officers, legislators,
staff and lobbying firms will be invited to attend.
Director of Government Relations Gabrielle Charette, who organized the
event said MSU Day in Trenton will be fun and informative for everyone
involved. "Our alumni in the state's capital will hear about the
exciting projects underway at Montclair State, and our students will get
a firsthand look at how our state government operates," she said.
Renowned author celebrates opening of new department
Vivian Gussin Paley, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius"
award and a renowned author, will help Montclair State celebrate the opening
of the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education on March
18.
A major figure in the field of early childhood and elementary education,
Paley will offer two workshops for Montclair State students and faculty.
She will be the keynote speaker at the opening celebration in the Student
Center Ballrooms from 4 to 6 p.m.
Her more than 10 books have inspired, transformed, and educated teachers,
parents and caregivers around the globe for more than three decades. She
is a masterful observer of children who relates everyday interactions
and events to the human condition. Her books, You Can’t Say You
Can’t Play, Kwanzaa and Me, White Teacher and The Boy
Who Would be a Helicopter not only take readers into the complex world
of children's thinking and emotions, but describe and elucidate the social
conditions of inclusion, racism, equity and justice. Her insights, drawn
from the wisdom of children, are powerful reflections on our society.
Paley received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award in 1989
and the Erickson Institute Award for Service to Children in 1987. In 1997,
her book, The Girl with the Brown Crayon, was given the Harvard
University Press Virginia and Warren Stone Prize as the outstanding book
about education and society, and in 1999 the same book brought her the
NCTE David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching
of English. More recently, she received the John Dewey Society Outstanding
Achievement Award for 2000. Her latest book, published last year, is Ms.
Tully’s Room.
Conference focuses on crime, violence
and terrorism.
The Justice Studies program will present issues surrounding sex crimes,
domestic violence and terrorism in its first conference, "Sex, Violence
and Terror: Justice Issues in the 21st Century."
The conference will be held Wednesday, March 27 in Dickson Hall, Cohen
Lounge. The topic for the morning panel, which runs from 9:15 to 11:45
a.m., is "Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence: Victims and Offenders."
Presenters are Helen Archontou, executive director, Wynona M. Lipman Child
Advocacy Center; Joseph Del Russo, chief assistant prosecutor in Passaic
County and supervisor of the Child Abuse and Megan's Law Units; and Doug
Martinez, program administrator and supervising psychologist, Saint Clare's
Behavioral Health Center.
The afternoon panel, "Terrorism and its Aftermath: Social and Psychological
Effects on the Individual and the Community," runs from 1 to 3:15
p.m. and includes Spencer Eth, professor and vice chair of Psychiatry
and Behavior Science at New York Medical College; Regis Fernandez, a private
practice lawyer who specializes in immigration law; and Martin Silverman,
clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical Center.
Registration begins at 8:15 p.m. The conference is free to faculty, staff
and students.
English Department presents Woolf's "A
Room of One's Own"
The English Department, in conjunction with Women's Studies and the Women's
Center, will present Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own,"
a one-woman show presented by Philadelphia actress Marcia Saunders.
The performance will take place Tuesday March 26, from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
in Dickson Hall, Brantl Lecture Hall.
Inspired by an incident in which Woolf was barred from the library at
Cambridge University because she was a woman, "A Room of One's Own"
began as two lectures on women and fiction given by the writer in 1928
at Cambridge's two women's colleges, Newnham and Girton.
Saunders' innovative performance brings to life Woolf's modernist stream-of-consciousness,
her mastery of language and her trenchant argument that in order to release
their creativity, women must first gain economic and social independence.
A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Saunders
has been a member of People's Light and Theatre Company in Malvern, Pa.
for the past 24 years. A four-time Barrymore Award nominee, she also is
the recipient of two Emmy Awards for her narration of "Teacher TV"
on the Discovery Channel.