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Jim Cramer ticket distribution announced
Jim Cramer, popular host of the CNBC's "Mad Money," radio host, author, co-founder of the Internet financial news hub The Street.com, and graduate of the Harvard University School of Law, will speak on "The Capitalist Citizen and Democracy" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. [full story]
The event, part of The Bucknell Forum national speakers series, is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Bucknell students, faculty, and staff may register online for up to two tickets per person from noon Monday, Jan. 21, until 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22. Tickets will be mailed Thursday, Jan. 24.Members of the general public may pick up tickets in person beginning at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the Weis Center box office on campus, on a first-come, first-served basis.
"The Bucknell Forum: The Citizen & Politics in America" is a national speakers series exploring major issues in the 2008 presidential election, notably those at the forefront of today's national discourse. The series features nationally renowned leaders, scholars, and commentators exploring these issues from multi-disciplinary perspectives and offers opportunities for campus and community conversations.
The next Bucknell Forum event features a leading panel of experts on religion in politics, including Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; Dr. Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; and The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, in Trout Auditorium). The event is free and open to the public.
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Focus the Nation teach-in to address climate change
Bucknell will join more than 500 colleges and universities across the country on Jan. 31 to discuss global climate change and its challenges in a daylong teach-in called Focus the Nation. It is expected to be the largest teach-in in U.S. history. [full story]
The University will host faculty and guest speaker discussions and other events spanning the entire day, including an evening lecture by Andrew Revkin, global-environment writer for The New York Times. He has written more than 300 stories on climate for the Times, including a prize-winning series of stories exposing political interference with government reports. Revkin is also the author of two acclaimed books on the subject, including The North Pole Was Here.
Jess Scott ’08 is organizing the campus events and working with the Bucknell Environmental Center to plan and host the wide range of global-warming panels.
"Focus the Nation is a national initiative focused on global climate change. Bucknell is going to be highly involved in this event with a full day of activities," she said. "It is imperative that we focus the immense intellectual energy of this country on this problem, not only on Jan. 31, but in the years and months following the event." Audio
The day’s events will include a series of four interdisciplinary discussion panels during regularly scheduled class hours, a campus sustainability celebration, and a sustainable business expo. Several Pennsylvania elected officials have been invited to participate in a non-partisan, intergenerational discussion about what the state and country are doing about global climate change and how universities can be involved in laying the foundation for environmental decisions. The day will conclude with a talk by Revkin in Trout Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.
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Study abroad students blog about adventures
Nine Bucknell students are chronicling their foreign adventures in a new edition of the study abroad blog. [full story]
The students, now arriving at spring study destinations around the globe, have already started to post about their world travel expectations and experiences.
The new bloggers represent a diverse group of majors -- from civil engineering and management to anthropology and creative writing. Spring study destinations include Egypt, Australia, Greece, Italy, Ireland, France, Denmark, England, and Spain.
The student explorers are each carrying a digital camera and will supplement their posts with photographs of their adventures. Some will add short video clips to their posts to share with classmates, friends, and family.
More than 40 percent of Bucknell students spend a portion of their undergraduate careers studying abroad.
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'The Jackleg Testament' at Samek
The Samek Art Gallery will present an exhibition of Jay Bolotin's "The Jackleg Testament: part one – Jack & Eve" from Jan. 25 through March 30 in the main gallery. [full story]
According to Samek Art Gallery Director Dan Mills, The Jackleg Testament consists of two remarkable and interrelated bodies of work that re-tell the creation stories of Western religion.
"It is a portfolio of 40 woodcuts containing all of the visual elements — the subjects, objects, scenery and props — for a 65-minute woodcut motion picture by the same name," said Mills. "The motion picture, which is included in the portfolio, innovatively combines moving images created from the woodcuts with an operatic play and musical score written by the artist.
"This exhibition marks the recent Samek acquisition of The Jackleg Testament portfolio," said Mills. "It is the first of a three-part series by this prolific artist, writer, composer, performer, stage and set designer, choreographer, and filmmaker." Video: Mills discusses exhibition
Bolotin will give a concert Thursday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. in Trout Auditorium. The woodcut motion picture, which won "Best Animation Award" at the 2007 Santa Fe Film Festival in December, will be premiered following the concert. The film also will be projected on a gallery wall and on view continuously.
Bolotin will be an artist-in-residence at Bucknell, meeting with classes and student groups during the week of Jan. 21. He also will give the lecture, "Concerning the Translation of Visual Imagery -Woodcuts - from one Medium to Another," on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center. The events and the exhibition are free and open to the public.
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Theatre students compete at Kennedy Center Festival
The Bucknell production of Sam Shepard's "True West" competed at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region II Festival (KCACTF) at Carnegie Mellon University on Jan. 3. [full story]
"This is a singular honor. It is a very illustrious competition," said Gary Grant, associate professor of theatre at Bucknell and director of the production. "More than 65 productions entered, and we are one of six selected. Our region [New York, New Jersey, Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Delaware] comprises some of the finest theatre schools in the country."
Performed in October, "True West" portrayed the tale of two brothers - one a successful Hollywood screenwriter and the other a small-time thief and drifter - who reunite in their mother's suburban kitchen.
The play was performed by theatre majors Alan Johnson-McNutt ’08 and Will Winner ’08 as part of their senior thesis project. The cast also includes Janine Merolla ‘08, Anastasia Peterson ’08, and Jonathan Schwartz ‘08. The production was designed by professors Heath Hansum (light), Elaine Williams (set), and Paula Davis (costume). It was stage managed by Sarah Nochenson ‘10 with additional costume work by Lauren Deitrich ‘09. Photo gallery
"In addition to this exciting selection, several of the actors in 'True West' have been nominated for Irene Ryan acting scholarships from the KCACTF," said Grant. "Our sound designer, Bucknell junior Megan McShea, has already received a certificate of merit for her work, illustrating the success of the theatre program at Bucknell and the continued support that the arts have received from this institution."
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Students make third trip for Katrina relief
A team of 26 Bucknell students and staff members traveled to New Orleans over winter break to assist with Hurricane Katrina relief. [full story]
The Bucknell Katrina Recovery Team visited St. Bernard Parish Dec. 14-22 to help the New Orleans chapter of Habitat for Humanity construct homes for people still coping with damage from the storm.
"I have never done any kind of construction before," recounted Jenna Crimaldi '08 in her Dec. 15 blog. "By the end of the day, a group of us were up on the roof placing and nailing boards almost on our own!"
The team made even more progress in Waveland, Miss., Katrina's "ground zero," where they worked with Walls of Hope, an organization dedicated to rebuilding homes for elderly, disabled, or single-parent families. In two hours, half the team had insulated an entire house, a task slated to last all day, while the other half demolished a house a few blocks away.
Another trip is scheduled for May 9-17 and space is still available. For more information, contact Janice Butler, Director of Service-Learning.
