In the News
“When visiting Barcelona, Spain, heed this advice: Throw away the travel
guide and don’t even think about going to a bullfight. Why? Because the only way
to ‘get’ the Barcelona culture is to put yourself in the middle of it. … In all,
to make it in Barcelona, relinquish your tight grasp on your American identity
for a little while. Maybe you’ll leave a little more tired and a little bit
heavier, but you’ll also gain a lot of knowledge about a fascinating culture.”
“Soaking Up Barcelona’s
Lively Culture”
Lesley Peterson ’05
Hartford Courant, January 22, 2005
“At 24, Sohaib Nazeer Sultan could easily be mistaken for a
graduate student as he walks the campus of Trinity College. But when
students return to classes this week, they will find Sultan in his
office in the Interfaith House on Vernon Street, as Trinity’s first
Muslim chaplain. … Trinity students may also notice that Sultan will
occasionally be trailed by a film crew. He is a subject in ‘The
Calling,’ a four-part PBS documentary series about the spiritual
journey of eight people from Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths who
have chosen a life in the clergy. The crew has followed Sultan since
he was an undergraduate in Indiana and has come to Hartford Seminary
to film him there … As a religious leader on campus, Sultan said, he
is there for both Muslim and non-Muslim students, and to help build
bridges between faith and secular communities on campus. ‘The most
important thing is for me to be available to all students, to answer
questions and not take offense, because I know there is a lot of
misunderstanding about Islam, and my job is to work through that.’”
“Muslim Chaplain Building
Bridges at Trinity”
Hartford Courant, January 23, 2005
“Kind, hard-working and innately gifted with computers, Bronzell
Dinkins never stopped learning or helping others … By the time he
entered college, he had met his sister’s girlfriend, Patricia Lewis,
who found him ‘nice, and sharp as a tack’ … ‘He was an excellent
student, very knowledgeable, in a way typical undergraduates wouldn’t
be,’ said Ralph Morelli, a professor of computer science at Trinity.
‘He really stood out.’ Morelli chose Dinkins as a teaching assistant
even before graduation, and later Dinkins was hired as an instructor
in the college’s computer lab. ‘He was a quiet, gentle person,’
Morelli said, ‘but confident in his ability. When things broke down,
he’d volunteer to fix them, and he put a lot of time into it. I never
saw him get testy with students … and students loved him’ … Dinkins
and his wife enjoyed movies, theatre, dance, and especially, videos …
‘It didn’t matter if it was James Brown or Einstein,’ said Patricia …
Bronzell Dinkins Jr. said that besides being a loving parent, his
father embodied the work ethic. ‘We weren’t handed anything; we had to
work for everything,’ he said. ‘That is missing for a lot of kids.
They take a lot for granted. I realize how hard my parents worked for
everything they owned. He was the model I try to pattern.’”
“Sharp As A Tack’ And A
Gentle Soul”
Hartford Courant, January 23, 2005
“George Washington was no George Patton. He and his fellow Revolutionary War officers proved time and again that they could turn near victories into defeat and defeats into disasters. Benedict Arnold and Charles Lee were brilliant field commanders, but Arnold betrayed the cause, and Lee challenged the chain of command in ways that threatened the overall war effort. Horatio Gates won at Saratoga in 1777 but then played self-promoting politics for the rest of the war, suffered a devastating loss at Camden and made a muddle of the Southern command. Nathaniel Greene, who replaced Gates in late 1780, offered this assessment of the spirit of the Continental Army: ‘We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.’”
“The Story of a Persistent Revolutionary War Hero”
Louis P. Masur, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Institutions and Values
Chicago Tribune, January 30, 2005
“Didn't think it was possible for the left to be anymore
splintered? Welcome to the world of biopolitics ... Biopolitics, a
term coined by Trinity College professor James Hughes, places
pro-technology transhumanists on one pole and people who are
suspicious of technology on the other.
According to
Hughes, transhumanists are members of ‘an emergent
philosophical movement which says that humans can and should become
more than human through technological enhancements.’ The term
transhuman is shorthand for transitional human -- people
who are in the process of becoming ‘posthuman’ or ‘cyborgs.’ It may
sound like a movement founded by people who argue over Star Trek
minutia on the Internet, but transhumanists are far more complex and
organized than one might imagine. They got their start in the early
1980s as a small band of libertarian technophiles who advocated for
any advancement that could extend human life indefinitely or eliminate
disease and disability.”
“The Next Digital Divide: How biopolitics could reshape
our understanding of left and right”
Utne, January, 2005
“The UnPOSSESSED seems modern-day manic, not history-minded
hysterical, and it's experimentally emotive rather than
entertainment-driven. Based on videotaped excerpts I've seen, the show
appears to deal, imagistically and imaginatively, with the
impermanence of performance, the limitations of literature, the death
of hope, the madness of modern living. Its staging is frenetic yet
stark. It's not a musical per se, but there is a live, onstage band
playing an original score by Justin Handley … The UnPOSSESSED , which
Double Edge brings to Trinity College on tour this week after a
triumphant run at New York's LaMama ETC space in November, has its own
circus elements: stiltwalking, rope-swinging, actors encased in
rolling metal frames, and confrontational, occasionally clownish
acting techniques. Various New York reviews, all favorable, have
described the production as ‘fervid,’ ‘circusy,’ ‘off-kilter’ and
‘outdoor-like.’”
“Don't Cry For Me”
Hartford Courant, February 5, 2005
“In the days preceding his Valley Music Series performance, John Rose
will spend hours stroking the keys and pumping the pedals of the
Congregational Church's organ in Naugatuck. He will listen to the
mighty instrument's tonal qualities and reflect on how its sound
reverberates in the cavernous space where he will perform on Feb. 13.
It's a meticulous process that involves going through all the organ's
dozens of stops, or timbres, that an organist can choose from by
manipulating different knobs or tabs on the instrument to adjust the
music's registration. ‘You can't just show up to play a concert on a
strange organ,’ explained Rose, an internationally known organist and
director of chapel music at Hartford's Trinity College since 1977.
Rose knows much of the need for performance preparation. His hands
have caressed the keyboards of dozens of organs around the world --
from Newark's Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, where he started his
career at age 20, to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.”
“Internationally known organist gears up to perform at Naugatuck's
Congregational Church” Republican-American, February 6, 2005
“Sharon D. Herzberger, a psychology
professor and administrator at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., has
been chosen as president of Whittier College. Herzberger will join the
2,500-student campus in July after finishing the school year at
Trinity, where she is vice president for institutional planning and
administration. She will replace Katherine Haley Will, who left to
become president of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.”
“Connecticut Educator Chosen to Head College”
L.A.Times.com, February 13, 2005
“Through the entrance of the Austin
Arts Center at Trinity College came the smell of incense, the
occasional sound of bells and the chanting of seven Buddhist nuns from
a Nepalese monastery. Part prayer, part performance, part process,
this was the beginning of the end of a two-week effort to create - and
on Monday, dismantle - a mandala, a meditative sand sculpture popular
in Buddhist tradition …The word ‘mandala’ is Sanskrit for ‘circle.’ A
mandala is ‘normally created as a meditational aid, showing the layout
of a celestial palace, its surrounding environment and the placement
of deities within,’ according to Laura Harrington, Trinity professor
of religion, writing in the exhibit's program. Such meditation and
reflection, Harrington writes, can help change daily perceptions of a
chaotic world into wisdom and ‘the blissful world of Buddhas.’ Or, as
visitor Michelle Carpenter of Windsor put it, ‘You feel that you want
to personally reflect and take the opportunity to simply quiet your
mind, and we in America are so busy and we lead such crazy lives, that
we don't ever take time to do that. I'm going to … call my husband,
and say, `You need to come down and see this,'’ Carpenter said. ‘And
experience it. It's beyond description. You just need to come see and
feel and be a part of it. Have a presence here with something just
very special.’" “At Trinity, An
Ancient Symbol Of Unity Is Created”
Hartford Courant, February 13, 2005
“A new series of books says
religious life in Missouri and Kansas has developed in ways that at
times are quite different. Missouri is religiously ‘complex,’ was
‘initially dominated by a French Catholic presence’ and is part of a
region “in which religious conflict has been pronounced.’ Indeed the
region that includes Missouri ‘has become the central theater for the
nation's ‘culture wars.' Kansas, by contrast, has been ‘a radical
land’ at times in its religious history, but today Methodists are the
most dominant faith group, although their numbers are falling. These
and other conclusions about religion in the two states are found in a
new ‘Religion by Region Series’ of books published in cooperation with
the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public
Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.”
A diversity of diversities:
Missouri and Kansas figure
in a series studying regions and their religions”
Kansas City Star, February 13, 2005
“Albert Einstein’s famous Theory
(Relativity), Kurt Gödel’s famous Theorem (Incompleteness) and Werner
Heisenberg’s famous Principle (Uncertainty) declared that, henceforth,
even science would be postmodern. … But as [Visiting Professor of
Philosophy] Rebecca Goldstein points out in her elegant new book,
‘Incompleteness: the Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel’ (Atlas Books;
Norton), of these three figures, only Heisenberg might have agreed
with this characterization. … Einstein and Gödel had precisely the
opposite perspective. Both fled the Nazis, both ended up in Princeton,
N.J., at the Institute for Advanced Study, and both objected to
notions of relativism and incompleteness outside their work. They fled
the politically absolute, but believed in its scientific possibility.”
Truth, Incompleteness And the Gödelian
Way
New York Times, February 14, 2005
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