contact information email your story ideas! Lesley magazine publications main page Off-campus readers can now subscribe to the Lesley News and receive an e-mail notification when an issue is published, and containing a list of the issue's articles. To subscribe: 1. Send an e-mail to: majordomo@ mail.lesley.edu. 2. Leave the "Subject" section blank. 3. In the body of the e-mail write: subscribe Lesley - news Note: Please turn your email signature off before sending. Back issues: Click here to read back issues of the Lesley News. P E O P L E AIB student Yatika Starr Fields has been chosen to be the U.S. representative in the First Young Artist Exhibition sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of Brunei, in South East Asia. The exhibition will be held on the fringes of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan from Nov. 12-17. The exhibition is aimed at developing a network among new artists. The Massachusetts Department of Education has chosen three Lesley faculty members to serve on several Board of Education Advisory Councils. The councils were established by the Education Reform Act of 1993 to advise the commissioner and the board on matters relevant to their areas of focus in the implementation of education reform in Massachusetts. New members from Lesley include Dr. Sebastine Onwuka, associate professor of Biology, to serve on the Mathematics and Science Education Advisory Council; Dr. Martha Barry-McKenna, dean, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, to serve on Arts Education Advisory Council; and Anne Rarich, private consultant and adjunct professor, to serve on the Adult Education Advisory Council. The teens and staff of RAW Art Works, a community-based art therapy program in Lynn, Mass., were recently recognized in Washington. The RAW Art program was founded and is run entirely by Lesley expressive therapies alumni Mary Flannery, Jason Cruz, Kit Jenkins, Julie Duffy,and Kathe Swaback. RAW Art is one of 10 recipients of the Coming Up Taller Award given by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. The award honors arts and humanities organizations that give young people ways to contribute to their communities and that expand learning opportunities for at-risk youths by providing safe and productive environments for after-school activities. Lesley welcomes Stacey G. Harris, interim director of Disability Services for Students. She previously worked as the disability project coordinator for the City of Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities. She also recently served as the disability consultant to the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and as a consultant to the Department of Mental Retardation in Boston. Harris has worked with local colleges and universities on disability issues and has conducted extensive training and counseled students and administrators on disability awareness issues. I N   T H E   N E W S HIGHLIGHTING LESLEY: From The Chicago Tribune (10/25/00): "Nan Hocking-McDonough wants to give her mother the voice she never found in life. Although Phyllis Oxley Hocking enjoyed singing in the church choir, the song in her heart was a tortured one. And until the day she died 16 years ago, few people had heard the dirge that played throughout her adulthood. For almost four decades, Hocking-McDonough says, her mother was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her father, Milt, a former mayor of the Downstate town of Jacksonville. Now a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., and many years removed from those awful events, Hocking-McDonough is turning her mother's muted song into a record -- not in the musical sense. Hers is a visual presentation of people going on record to tell their stories of a woman who was abused so often and so long that she felt forced to make a tragic choice...." From The Chrisitian Science Monitor (10/25/00): "...there's nothing wrong with soccer, gymnastics, chess club or any of the other structured activities offered to kids these days. But, done to an extreme -- with a different activity every afternoon, for instance -- children are robbed of time for unstructured play or to do absolutely nothing. 'On the outside,' explains Jacqueline Haines, director of the Gesell Institute of Human Development in New Haven, Conn., 'it may look like your son or daughter is simply wasting time, but a child sitting and staring into space is accomplsihing a lot.' What they are accomplsihing might be called the fourth 'R:' resourcefulness. 'This quality is in demand in our world now more than ever,' says Mary Mindess, professor of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. When children are constantly booked up, they lose the ability to entertain themselves or problem-solve without help, she says. 'The child who can entertain him or herself, daydream, and just be in one's own thought world, has been given a real gift. You don't have things happen to you that you haven't dreamt about first.'" From The Boston Globe (10/08/00): "A decade ago,...69 schoolchildren...entered third grade at the Harrington Elementary School with an enviable promise: Connecticut-based money manager George Weiss pledged college scholarships and other help to all the students who would go on to graduate from high school. From after-school tutoring and summer camp to college campus visits and SAT preparation, the Brookline native said his foundation, Say Yes to Education, would cover it all as the children made their way through school toward the jackpot: high school graduation. The Cambridge children...are the fourth group Weiss took under his wing back in 1991. He partnered with Lesley College, now Lesley University, which runs the program here. 'If in our group 50 percent go to college, it is an incredible accomplishment," said Jose Ribeiro, the affable and protective Say Yes coordinator who has known the Cambridge high-schoolers since they were in the second grade. 'We expect more than that to go (to college).' No doubt, this is the home stretch and the pressure is on. Fifty-two of the original 69 Harrington students are seniors now, most of whom are expected to graduate in June." MEDIA DIGEST: From The Chronicle of Higher Education (10/27/00): "Young Americans are still excited about politics, and a majority of them will vote in the forthcoming presidential election, according to a study released Thursday by students at Hamilton College in New York. The study, which was conducted with the help of the New York polling giant Zogby International, shows that more than three-quarters of people age 18 to 24 plan to vote in the November 7 general election. It also shows that more than 88 percent of those polled are registered to vote, and nearly 62 percent follow political news at least some of the time. Those numbers seem to be at odds with the popular notion that young Americans, particularly college students, are apathetic about politics. The students who organized the study, however, did say that young voters feel alienated by candidates who often seem to disregard the issues that matter most to them. According to the study, an overwhelming number said education was the most important issue in this election, with Social Security and abortion ranking second and third." S U R F W A T C H Bookhive Reviews current titles of children's books. Includes nonfiction, folklore, chapter books and read-alouds. www.bookhive.org The Horn Book The Horn Book Magazine, which has reviewed children's books for almost 80 years, is now online. The site showcases authors, illustrators, librarians and editors. Includes recommended reading lists. www.hbook.com Booklist Lists titles for older readers, middle readers and books for the young. www.ala.org/booklist/v96 /002.html		November 8, 2000 this issue's index news features fyi people events in the news surfwatch N E W S AIB Presents "Mightier Than the Sword" By Lynn Collins, Public Affairs "Mightier than the Sword, Political Satire, Caricature, and Cartoon on the Presidency, Presidents and Presidential Elections" opens at The Art Institute of Boston on Thursday, Nov. 13, and continues through Jan. 21. An opening reception for the artists will be held from 5 - 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7. The exhibition highlights the work of artists Edward Sorel of The New Yorker, Jules Feiffer of the Village Voice, Robert Grossman of The Atlantic Monthly, Seymour Chwast of Push Pin Studios in New York City, Jeff Danziger of The Los Angeles Times and Dan Wasserman of The Boston Globe. "Those engaged in the profession of political satire and cartoon, whatever their own political views," explains curator Bonnell Robinson, "are the prime exemplars of freedom of the press. In 1830, the French government fueled a revolution, in part, because they tried to suppress visual satire and caricature. Among those who survived -- to attack again -- was Honore Daumier. Today, Feiffer, Sorel, Danziger, Chwast, Wasserman, and Grossman are among our finest masters of satire and cartoon to continue this tradition of political commentary as they unmask and lampoon the foibles and follies of our politicians." Jon Swan, author and journalist, in his introduction to the exhibition brochure writes, "While satire is first and foremost a literary form, the impulse to puncture and deflate, to indict and excoriate finds expression in all the arts, particularly the pictorial. Hogarth's "The Rake's Progress," is a memorable example; Daumier's depictions of predatory lawyers and a generally avaricious bourgeois society have lost neither their relevance nor their bite. While written satire may be gasping its last -- a washed-up shark still snapping its jaws -- the impulse that gave us a rich literature of wrath and righteous indignation lives on in the work of such masterful practitioners as Ronald Searle, David Levine, Edward Sorel and Arnold Roth. It should be noted, however, that, fewer and fewer magazines care to, or date to, showcase satirical artwork. It might offend!" The exhibition will include a brief survey of political satire from the late 18th century to the present, followed by 65 pen and ink drawings, watercolors, and sculptures which feature portraits of presidents, contenders, and memorable events surrounding the presidency, beginning with Richard Nixon's run for office in 1960. The exhibition is funded in part by grants from the Boston Council for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Commission, a state agency. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Lesley Receives Funds for Cambridge, Brookline and Watertown Partnerships Students are the ultimate winners of several grants given to Lesley to continue its partnership programs in the Cambridge, Brookline and Watertown public schools, where Lesley student teachers work and train with veteran teachers. The Massachusetts Department of Education and Board of Higher Education have given Lesley and its partner schools and colleges a total of $149,000 in funds to implement innovative approaches to teacher preparation and recruitment. The funds are part of the Goals 2000/Eisenhower grant program. The partnership programs provide opportunity for teachers and college faculty to work collaboratively in redesigning the experience of pre-service teachers, says Marcia Bromfield, professor and director of the Division of Field Placement and Professional Partnerships in the School of Education. The programs also help increase the content knowledge of pre-service and veteran teachers. The Watertown project, known as "Project Open," is a collaborative effort among the Watertown Public Schools, Lesley and Boston College. The Cambridge Public School partnership includes both Lesley and Wheelock College.       F E A T U R E S Studio Influx Effective trademarks, brochures, posters and other marketing materials are must-haves for corporations today, but the price of well-designed marketing tools is often out of reach for non-profit organizations. What alternatives do non-profits have? One is Studio Influx, a class at The Art Institute of Boston where students consult with non-profit organizations -- free of charge. In its fourth year, Studio Influx has worked with a variety of non-profits, including the March of Dimes, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, JumpStart, North Bennett Street School, and Cultural Survival in Cambridge. "This is a chance for students to work on real projects with real clients," says teacher and professional graphic designer Rick Rawlins. "It's wonderful to see these students step up to the plate and gain a great deal of confidence while producing these projects. I can see the transformation in them." Before each semester begins, Rawlins chooses a couple of non-profits -- he often receives calls from organizations who are interested -- and sets up the projects. He fits the projects as closely as possible into the framework of a semester schedule and tries to match the students' skill levels. "Once the class begins, the students take over. They manage their own projects and arrange client meetings on their own schedule," says Rawlins. "I, meanwhile, act as any art director would. I meet with the students and talk with them about how to design effectively given the criteria, work within budgets, and avoid production problems." At present, Studio Influx is working on two projects with the March of Dimes and a logo for Visible Republic, a subfund of the New England Foundation for the Arts. "It's been a huge learning experience," says Erica Gregg, a student who is working on a brochure for the March of Dimes. "It's also nice to know you're helping do something positive for these organizations." Greg better understood that positive impact when she and her teammate, Jean DeBenedictis, visited a neonatal intensive care unit to witness firsthand the work the March of Dimes carries out. "We went into a hospital unit and saw how these babies are being cared for," says DeBenedictis. "We may not use that information directly in our brochure, but it's the kind of background that gets us into the mindframe of the client." With every project that is completed, word spreads about Studio Influx, and the list of organizations interested in participating continually grows. The Graphic Design Department is considering expanding the course, which is usually composed of seniors, many of whom have had past internship experience. "The design process is fresh and new to them," says Rawlins. "Clients say that the students oftentimes are not influenced by what is 'expected.' Their ideas are very fresh. "And the best part is, everyone seems to win at this."     E V E N T S   "Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves" Steven Hassan, one of the country's most well-known cult counselors, will speak and sign copies of his new book at Lesley. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the Marran Theatre, and is open to the public. Hassan was recruited into a cult, the Moon organization, in his teenage years and rose through the ranks to a high position before he was helped to leave the cult. Since then he has researched cults, consulting with various groups, and speaking about mind control and the cult phenomenon. He now directs the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, Inc., and the nonprofit Freedom of Mind Institute, which uphold human rights, promote consumer awareness and expose abuses of destructive cult groups. There are an estimated 3,000 cult groups operating in the U.S. today, and millions of people have been affected by these groups. Attend this event in order to learn more about this problem, and how to avoid becoming involved with destructive groups. For more information, contact Rev. Nancy E. Richards at 617-349-8942 or richards@mail.lesley.edu. Open Forum With President McKenna President Margaret McKenna invites Lesley faculty and staff members to join her at one of three upcoming open forums. The sessions are intended to be informal opportunities for community members to ask questions or raise issues. No reservations are required. The meetings are scheduled as follows: Thursday, Nov. 9, noon - 1:30 p.m., Wolford 203, Main Campus; Tuesday, Nov. 14, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., AIB Auditorium; and Friday, Nov. 17, noon - 1:30 p.m., Porter 306. Lesley Poetry Series Continues Poetry Events at Lesley (P.E.A.L.) continues this month with a performance by Maria Mazziotti Gillian and Diana Der-Hovanessian at 7 p.m., Nov. 13, in Room 305 of the Porter Exchange Building at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue. Gillan is the author of the acclaimed anthologies, "Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry" (Viking/Penguin), "Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American" (Penguin/Putnam) and "Growing Up Ethnic in America" (Penguin/Putnam). She is the author of six books of poetry, including "The Weather of Old Seasons" and the Alta Award winning "Luce D'Inverno" (Cross Cultural Communications). Her most recent book is "Things My Mother Told Me" (Guernica, 1999). Gillan is the founder and executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College and editor of the Patterson Literary Review. Der-Hovanessian is the author of 17 books including "Any Day Now" and received the Paterson Prize for "Circle Dancer." She has been a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Yerevan State University. Her poetry has been published extensively in magazines and periodicals including Poetry, the Harvard Review, Nation, the New Republic and Harper's. She has received awards from the Columbia Translation Center, PEN and the Writer's Union of America. The poetry series ends this semester with Vox Pop at 7 p.m., Dec. 7, at the Marran Theater on the Cambridge campus. CyberLunch Series Plan to attend this month's CyberLunch on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 12:30 - 2 p.m. in Ludcke Library 401. Linda Grisham from Natural Sciences in the Women's College will present "'Seeing' to Understand." Grisham will present a review of the cross-curricular uses of technology and Web resources for the visualization and modeling of ideas, especially for the arts, humanities, social science, and the sciences. The following are links to examples of this topic: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, High Performance Computing in the Arts, Center for Technology in Government: Applying Advanced Computational Infrastructure Technologies to Practical Problems of Government, and Biology Student Workbench. The workshop is hosted by the Center for Academic Technology and is open to all faculty and academic staff. For more information about CyberLunches, contact Rebecca Petersen-Leary at 617-349-8973 or rpeterse@mail.lesley.edu. For those who missed the last CyberLunch on the faculty Web publishing process, visit http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/rpeterse/Cyberlunch/ for a summary and notes on the topic. New England Kindergarten Conference All members of the Lesley community are invited to become involved in the 38th annual New England Kindergarten Conference sponsored by Lesley. The conference, which serves preK- grade 3 programs, will be held from Nov. 16 - 18 in Providence, RI. President Margaret McKenna will deliver the opening address, "Making Our Voices Heard." The complete conference program is posted on the Web at http://www.lesley.edu/kc. For specific information, call Mary Mindess or Kerri Schmidt at 617-349-8922. Blood Drive Blood supplies are at dangerous lows nationwide and local hospitals are in desperate need of donations. The Employee Activities Committee and Student Affairs are sponsoring a blood drive for students, staff and faculty from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Nov. 20, in Alumni Hall on the Cambridge campus. Donors must schedule an appointment ahead of time. Call Human Resources at 617-349-8783. All donors will receive a holiday tee-shirt. An Evening with Maxine Greene Columbia University Professor Maxine Greene will speak about "Teaching for the Aesthetic Experience" at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 27, in the Marran Theater on the Cambridge campus. A reception will follow in the Miller Room. Greene is a professor of philosophy and education and William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education, Teachers College, at Columbia, where she is also founder of the Center for the Arts, Social Imagination, and Education. She teaches at the Lincoln Center for the Arts and is past president of the American Educational Research Association, the American Educational Studies Association, and the Philosophy of Education Society. Her books include "The Dialectic of Freedom," "Landscapes of Learning," and "Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts and Social Change." For more information, contact Maura Delaney at 617-349-8634 or mdelaney@mail.lesley.edu. Holiday Party Change of Date Mark your calendars: The annual Lesley Faculty and Staff Holiday Party, sponsored by President Margaret McKenna and the Employee Activities Committee, will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 13, from 5 - 9 p.m. in the dining hall of the Main campus. Join the Lesley community for food, music, dancing, raffle prizes, and lots of holiday cheer. "A Diverse Company of 2" Artists Bethany Liebman and Dawn Nolan-Lombardi present "A Diverse Company of 2" at The Gallery at Porter Exchange through January. The gallery is located on the third floor of Porter Exchange Building, 1815 Massachusetts Ave. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. The exhibit is sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences.       F Y I Charities Drive Deadline Approaches Last month, Lesley faculty and staff celebrated the kick-off of the annual Charities Drive at a pie party held on the third floor cafe at Porter Exchange. This month is the deadline for donations to the 2000 Faculty/Staff Charities Drive -- Wednesday, Nov. 22. Gifts to the Annual Drive support the work of United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Community Works. Requests for extra donor materials and questions about giving may be directed to Kathy Sammartino in the Finance Office via email at ksammart@mail.lesley.edu or at 617-349-8763. Teaching Surveys and Reports Some recent reports and surveys spotlighting the state of teaching in America: Metropolitan Life's survey: "The American Teacher 2000: Are We Preparing Students for the 21st Century?" Copies are available from www.metlife.com in the company info/community section. "Before It's Too Late:" The long-awaited report from the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century (The Glenn Commission), is available online. "Educating the Emerging Majority: The Role of Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities in Confronting America's Teacher Crisis Report:" Prepared for the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education in September. The newest report from the Educational Testing Service, "Teaching the Teachers: Different Settings, Different Results," studied prospective teachers' licensure examinations and other objective measures, and concluded that a mastery of both subject matter knowledge and pedagogy is critical to teacher quality. Three universities in Ohio -- Ohio State University, Ohio University, and Wright State University --have formed The Ohio Teaching-Learning Initiative (OTLI), an effort make the education of teachers a focus of the institutions. The universities are partnering with the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of Education in the endeavor, which focuses on "the knowledge and abilities of the whole teacher." Learning from the Holocaust: An educational experience in two countries and four cities Learning from the Holocaust is a four-city tour of the history of the Holocaust in both Germany and Poland. It is an experience of transformational education that offers participants an experience of the power of place. For an application and detailed itinerary, contact Barbara Vacarr at 1-800-999-1959 or 617-349-8469 or email at bvacarr@mail.lesley.edu Commonthought Seeks Submissions "Commonthought," Lesley's magazine of the arts, is accepting submissions for consideration in its 2001 edition, to be published this spring. Creative students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to send in their short stories, poems, essays, photos and artwork for review. Submission guidelines are as follows: Fiction and Essays: Up to 10 pages, typed Poetry: Up to 5 pages, typed Photography and Artwork: black and white or color photographs, pen and ink drawings, no slides Submissions are read blindly and are judged by students. Send a hard copy and disk (Microsoft Word 5.1a or 6.0 for Macintosh). A SASE must accompany the work if artists want it returned. Include address, phone number and state affiliation with the Lesley community. Send to: Anne Pluto, Lesley College/Humanities, 33 Mellen Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Deadline is Jan. 31. For more information or questions, contact apluto@mail.lesley.edu.