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Clarkies pack the Kneller to remember player, coach, dad Patrick Oroszko ’03

The June 10 celebration of life for Patrick Oroszko ’03 left a gym-full of Clarkies seeing red — lots of it. Family members, friends, former teammates, and co-workers arrived at the Kneller Athletic Center decked out in red T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and neckties in honor of Patrick, the onetime Clark basketball captain and assistant coach…
Clark is more than a motto, Gavor tells reunion audience

When she was considering Clark, Delight Gavor ’16 was skeptical that the University could live up to its motto, “Challenge Convention. Change Our World.” But her father wasn’t. “He said, ‘This is the place you should go,’” Gavor told the audience in her featured address at the May 20 Friday Night Dinner, a cornerstone of Reunion…
Rare books tell a story at Academic Spree Day

The words “handle with care” take on added meaning in the Introduction to Archival Research seminar taught by Meredith Neuman, associate professor of English, with Clark University archivist Fordyce Williams. The seminar’s students research books that are not just historical in content but also in their physical forms, many of them preceding the invention of the printing press. Students…
Thea Sahr ’86 engineers a career, Clark style

Thea Sahr ’86 describes her career path as “very Clarkie.” Her professional experiences have been driven by her passions, her routes not especially linear. And “As I look back on it 30 years later, I see that I’ve had a series of interesting jobs that have turned out to be this really cool career,” she…
Blackhawk gives voice to the unspoken genocide

It was the extermination of entire tribes — the murder and displacement of millions, the theft of lands, the destruction of cultures. And yet, according to Yale professor Ned Blackhawk (pictured), the eradication of Native Americans in the United States and Canada over several centuries somehow escapes consideration as a genocide in many history texts. In the April 15…
Election-year politics are no party

Anger. Outrage. Distortion. These and other equally unpleasant words have shaped the vocabulary for the 2016 presidential campaign, three political scholars told a Clark University audience last week. And it will only get worse. The speakers were welcomed to Tilton Hall for the Harrington Lecture, sponsored by the Political Science Department and the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise. David A.…
Researchers detail impacts of marijuana, opioids on families

Mosakowski Institute holds 7th annual Family Impact Seminar at State House
2016 Climate Change Teach-In asks crucial questions about issue

The stakes are high. The planet is changing profoundly. What does it mean, what is possible, and what is needed? Clark University’s second Climate Change Teach-In on March 23 brought the campus together for a deep consideration of the challenges to the planet’s health. The day featured a variety of teach-in sessions and a campus-wide…
Ben Bagdikian ’41 championed the public’s right to know

Ben Bagdikian ’41, who died March 11 at the age of 96, enjoyed a storied career in journalism. He won the Pulitzer Prize, reported on prisons, poverty and civil rights, and defied the federal government by helping publish the Pentagon Papers, thus securing one of history’s greatest victories for freedom of the press. Later he…
Sen. Warren urges every child be given ‘a fighting chance to succeed’

It was not a religious revival, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren did ask for one “amen” from the podium in Clark University’s Atwood Hall. Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic decision ending school segregation Brown v. The Board of Education, she cited Justice Earl Warren, who observed that a public school education “is a right that must be…