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Jones Inaugurated as President
James F. Jones, Jr. was inaugurated as the 21st
president of Trinity College on Sunday, October 16, 2004.
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Trinity Building on Cornerstones
President Jones has announced the implementation of a comprehensive planning model for the College, known as the Cornerstone Project, that will help to establish an ongoing process for annual planning in a wide range of areas.
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International Week Brings
Global Learning to Campus
Representatives from several of Trinity’s Global Learning Sites
gathered on campus recently for a week of workshops, class visits, and
informational sessions for students.
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College Hosts Park Symposium
At a symposium marking the sesquicentennial of Hartford’s Bushnell Park, Trinity hosted a group of scholars and historians in the Washington Room for
Bushnell Park at One Hundred Fifty: Legacies & Lessons.
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Walker Delivers with Shoot the Messenger
Walker, longtime director of the Austin Arts Center, wrote and performed the one-hour play, which ran on consecutive Friday and Saturday evenings from September 24 through October 9.
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Sports
Highlights
Senior Christina Kane wins
X-Country Invitational.
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In the News
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recent media coverage of Trinity College. |
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What they’re reading…
 Christine
McCarthy McMorris
Administrative Assistant, Leonard Greenberg Center; and
publicity assistant for Cinestudio.
"I just finished reading The
Master, a new book by the Irish writer Colm Toibin. The genre
is one that fascinates me—a biography that reads like a novel,
imagining the interior life of a well-known person, in this
case Henry James. It begins as the middle-aged James suffers
public humiliation in London for his badly-received play. We
see him snubbed for his American and Irish heritage among the
English upper class, and misunderstood by his American friends
and relatives for his rejection of Puritanism and his
“shocking” novels. As James thinks back on his complex family
relationships, near-erotic experiences with men and the
traumatic trial of Oscar Wilde, I began to appreciate what
chances James took with his art, if not his life. The language
is elegant and understated, and the country estates in
Ireland, the English villages, and the back streets of Venice
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Colin McEnroe, visiting lecturer
in English and local media personality, talks with
his class prior to the first presidential debate.
McEnroe is teaching a graduate class this semester
called “The Media and the Presidential Election." (photo
Nick Lacy) |
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Drew Hyland
Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy
“Someone once phrased it rather
nicely, I think, when they said that sports should be the
sweatiest of the liberal arts,” Drew Hyland says with a slight
smile. “I believe that.” He ought to know. A member of the
Princeton basketball team from 1958 to 1961—back when the Ivy
League was a force in big-time college sports—Hyland is aware
of the important role that intercollegiate athletics can play
in a student’s overall educational experience. And he wishes
that more faculty members would recognize it as well.
“There I was,” Hyland remembers, “at this great institution of
higher learning, devoting enormous amounts of time, emotion,
and self identity to playing basketball, and not one of my
teachers at this great institution ever suggested to me that I
ought to make that athletic experience part of my
education—that I ought to think about, and learn from, that
experience. I used to joke that the closest my academics and
basketball ever came to each other was when a professor would
ask me for tickets to a game that was sold out. When I came to
Trinity, I didn’t want any of my students to be able to say
the same thing about their experience here. That’s why I first
developed the ‘Philosophy of Sport’ class, which I’ve been
teaching on and off for 30 years.”
Hyland points out that in most other countries, top-tier
athletics are not associated with educational institutions.
America has tied athletics to education because we presumably
believe that the two are, or should be, connected. That
connection is one that Hyland believes should be reinforced.
Along with Athletic Director Rick Hazelton and Associate
Athletic Director Robin Sheppard, he helped to start a program
through which Trinity’s athletic teams now have faculty
advisers assigned to them. “It’s no surprise, of course, that
I’m the adviser to the men’s basketball team,” he says. “The
student-athletes, in all sports, who come to a school like
Trinity, are good enough and passionate enough about their
sport that they want an intense experience. I try to find ways
to keep reminding them that their athletic experience can be a
very meaningful and important part of their education. I
sincerely believe that I learned as much about myself and
human nature through basketball at Princeton as I did in any
of my courses there.”
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