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Samuel T. Lloyd III Will Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon at Commencement The Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon on Commencement day, May 24. At the 173rd Commencement, Lloyd will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. Journalist and author Juan Williams will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Journalism. Lloyd was installed as the ninth dean of Washington National Cathedral in April 2005. Officially named the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the cathedral serves a three-fold mission, set forth in its charter granted by Congress in 1893, as a national house of prayer for all people, a great church for national purposes, and the chief mission church of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Apr 10, 2008
Amanda Whitbred ’11 Speaks Tonight About Feminism on WDIY’s Valley View Program
Apr 09, 2008
College Community Will Explore Environmental Issues during Earth Week Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection (LEAP) invites all members of the campus community to get involved in this year’s Earth Week celebration April 19-25. The week’s theme is “Making Conscious Choices.” Events include discussions with sustainability experts, an Earth Day celebration, an activist picnic, an energy saving competition between dorms, and a Bushkill Creek clean-up. “Environmental issues cross the borders of all disciplines, so it is important for students to see how such issues relate to their own lives in many ways,” says LEAP treasurer Jennifer Tillman ’10 (Kensington, Md.). “Becoming aware now means we all have the ability to change our actions and still make a real difference.”
Apr 08, 2008
Slideshow: Author Salman Rushdie Discusses His Life and Books As part of the College’s yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s birth, award-winning novelist Salman Rushdie presented "Step Across This Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie" on April 3. The talk was part of the celebration’s Lives of Liberty lecture series. Watch a slideshow.
Apr 04, 2008
Mark Dimunation Will Kick Off Schlueter Lectureship April 23
Mark Dimunation, chief of rare book and special collections division at the Library of Congress, will be the first speaker in the Paul and June Schlueter Lectureship in the Art and History of the Book 4:30 p.m. April 23 in the Gendebien Room of Skillman Library.A reception will take place in the Simon Room in Skillman Library immediately following the lecture where the new exhibit, “Choice of All My Library:” Thirteen Treasures from Lafayette’s Rare Book Collection has been mounted in honor of the Schlueter Lecture.The Schlueter Lectureship was established by Paul and June Schlueter in 2007 in support of Skillman Library’s Special Collections.
Apr 04, 2008
April First Weekend Features Bike Rides, Smoothies, and Spring Time Festivities
Apr 03, 2008
Lafayette Celebrates National Poetry Month in April
Lafayette’s celebration of National Poetry Month includes readings from students, open mic nights, and interaction with the acclaimed poets who judged Lafayette’s student poetry competitions. All events are free and open to the public. This year’s winner of the Jean Corrie Poetry Competition is government and law major Kyle deCant ’10 (Orange, Conn.). Amanda Whitbred ’11 (Doylestown, Pa.) received honorable mention. English major Megan Kaesshaefer ’08 (Philadelphia, Pa.) won the MacKnight Black Poetry Competition. Events are sponsored by the English department, the department of foreign languages and literatures, and the Arts Society.
Apr 03, 2008
I Come From a Place Where Opportunity is Scarce
Apr 03, 2008
Helping the Future Heroes of a Changing World
Apr 03, 2008
USC Professor James M. Steele ’65 Will Discuss Architecture April 14
James M. Steele ’65, professor of architecture at the University of Southern California, will present the 2008 John and Muriel Landis lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, April 14, in Oechsle Hall room 224. Steele will discuss sustainability considerations incorporated in traditional designs. His talk will emphasize the integration of engineering and the liberal arts embodied in architecture. Established by Trustee Emeritus John Landis ’39, the Landis Lectureship focuses on topics related to international aspects of technology and engineering. The lecture will be sponsored by the Architecture Studies minor and the English department.
Mar 31, 2008
PBS Television Features an Interview with President Weiss
In an interview on The Open Mind, public television’s longest-running interview program, President Daniel H. Weiss discusses the opportunities and challenges for small private colleges in America. Experience the video by visiting www.lafayette.edu and clicking on President in Quick Links. Taped Dec. 11, will air at noon April 5 on WNET-TV/Channel 13, the flagship PBS affiliate in New York City, and will be rebroadcast on CUNY-TV/Channel 75 at 8 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m. on Monday, April 28, and at 9:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 4. The Open Mind features prominent figures in the media, arts and sciences, education, business, government, and other areas of life.
Mar 27, 2008
Kate Walsh Will Speak March 28
Mar 27, 2008
In Our City: Billy’s Downtown Diner to Replace Former Perkins
Billy Kounoupis, owner of Billy’s Downtown Diner at 10 E. Broad St. in Bethlehem, will open a restaurant in the building which formerly housed Perkins Restaurant and Bakery at 123 S. Third St. in Easton. Perkins closed three months ago. The new diner is expected to open in June and will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Like his first successful franchise in Bethlehem, open for the past eight years, Billy’s Downtown Diner in Easton is expected to offer “diner food with a flare,” as Kounoupis says, at an affordable price and family-friendly atmosphere.
Mar 26, 2008
Nominations Sought for 2008 George Wharton Pepper Prize Nominations are now being sought for the 2008 George Wharton Pepper Prize. The prize awarded annually by the College to the senior “who most nearly represents the Lafayette ideal." The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 4. Any member of the Lafayette community can nominate a senior for this award. George Wharton Pepper H’22, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania, an attorney, and a founding member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, established this prize in 1923.
Mar 24, 2008
Historian Michael Steinlauf Will Discuss Classic Yiddish Play The Dybbuk April 1 Michael Steinlauf, Associate Professor of History at Gratz College in Philadelphia, will make two presentations April 1 on Jewish history and theater. At noon in the Gendebien Room of Skillman Library, he will give a brown bag lunch presentation called “The Dybbuk in the Twentieth Century,” focusing on the reception of the classic 1937 Yiddish play The Dybbuk. He will also present a slide lecture entitled “Building the Warsaw Museum of the History of Polish Jews” at 7:30 p.m. in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104. Steinlauf serves as senior historical consultant for the museum, which is scheduled to open in several years.
Mar 21, 2008
Religious Scholar Gregory D. Alles will Present Two Lectures April 8 Gregory D. Alles, professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at McDaniel
College in Westminster, Md., and past president of the North American Association for the Study of Religion, will pay a visit to campus on Tuesday, April 8th. His visit is sponsored by the department of religious studies through the Lyman Coleman Fund. Alles will present a Brown Bag lecture on Pithoro, the god of the Rathwa people of India, titled “Pithoro: A Well-known Unknown God,” 12:15 p.m. in Skillman Library's Gendebien Room. Following this, he will deliver a public guest lecture titled “Toward a Global Vision of Religious Studies" at 7:30 p.m. in Hugel Hall, room. 103.
Mar 21, 2008
Slideshow: Tragic Lessons Learned from Darfur
Nearly 100 Lehigh
Valley educators attended a workshop for teachers and librarians focusing on ways to incorporate the implications of the Darfur genocide into their teaching. Sponsored by the Policy Studies program, "Darfur: Tragic Lessons and How to Convey Them," was held March 17. Watch a slideshow.
Mar 20, 2008
Lafayette Hosts Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe Regional Competitions April 5-6 Lafayette will be hosting the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference April 5-6, with more than 150 civil engineering students from 10 different universities expected to attend. The highlights of the conference include the Steel Bridge Competition, held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 6, in Allen P. Kirby Sports Center, and the Concrete Canoe Competition, held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 5, on the Lehigh River, along Larry Holmes Drive. This is the first time that Lafayette has hosted the regional conference, which is held annually and attracts most of the engineering schools in the Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania region.
Mar 20, 2008
Art Historian Irving Lavin Will Discuss Baroque Artwork March 25
Art historian Irving Lavin will deliver the Carol P. Dorian '79 Memorial Lecture in Art History on "Going for Baroque: Observations on the Post-Modern Fold" at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the Williams Center for the Arts room 108. Lavin is one of America's most distinguished art historians. The recipient of a Medal of Honor from the City of Rome in acknowledgement of his many contributions, he has written extensively on the history of art from late antiquity to modern times. Lavin has recently delivered the A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art. He is the foremost living authority on the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and has published important articles on St. Peter's, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Modernism, and Post-Modernism.
Mar 20, 2008
Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet Takes the Stage April 9
Lafayette welcomes Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet to the Williams Center at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 9. This will be the season’s final performance in the Chamber Music Series.The Emerson String Quartet delivers an unequaled mixed repertory of exceptionally stylish performances from cycles of Beethoven, Bartok, and Shostakovich. The selected program for this performance spans an entire century of music bridging four assorted cultural worlds, ordered by geography and history. The quartet will introduce audiences to musical landscapes of the early 20th century Czech Republic and Hungary and on through the Baltic States and Finland in later years.
Mar 20, 2008
