Daniel Deutsch '13/MSPC '14
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‘Don’t Bite Your Tongue’ series brings campus community together over dinner and dialogue
A new series of “Don’t Bite Your Tongue” dinners brings together Clark University students – face-to-face in their residence halls – for challenging discussions on topics often kept “off the table.” The premise of the dinners is to allow for an open conversation on a potentially contentious issue, such as politics, religion, and race. Barbara…
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New Geller Jazz Concert Series set to open at Clark with legendary bassist Ron Carter, other greats
The Visual & Performing Arts Department at Clark University has received a generous gift from The Estate of Selma Geller, which establishes a biannual jazz concert series that will pair new and emerging artists with jazz legends and support audience development programming. The Geller family’s enthusiasm for jazz inspired their gift to Clark, which will support two…
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Clark University senior researches urban farming, potential model for food systems education program
Take a moment and look in your refrigerator. Do you know where those vegetables came from, or how they were distributed? Are they genetically modified? It is these types of questions and many more that Clark University senior Elliot A. Altbaum is attempting to answer with his ongoing research on food systems. Altbaum’s research doesn’t stop…
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Lecturer examines ‘savage portrayals’ of men of color
“How and why do so many negative images of young black males, particularly images steeped in an outsized criminality and violence, persist in mainstream media? What are some of the consequences of this?” These were the central questions posed by Natalie Byfield, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University in…
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Photography project focuses on individuals, shares personal stories from the Clark community
Two Clark University students are focusing their camera lenses on faces around campus for their new project, Humans of Clark (HoC). Sophomores Nainika Grover, of Brookline, and Jonathan Edelman, of Leawood, Kansas, are sharing snapshots of students and other members of the Clark community, along with quotes from spontaneous conversation, on a Facebook page that aims to “portray…