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Stephen Roach: U.S. should view China as an opportunity, not a rival

The United States and China are widely perceived as rivals, but the superpowers in fact rely on one another in a number of areas and — if political maneuverings don’t get in the way — could work together on a scale that would help balance the shortcomings in their respective economies. So said Stephen Roach,…
Clark at the Statehouse: Experts brief legislators on ‘Youth at Risk’

Is the recession helping to create a population of young people so disillusioned by their bleak job prospects that they’ve abandoned the notion of finding meaningful work? Has the media devoted so much attention to lurid accounts of child abuse that they are missing the real story — that child abuse has declined dramatically in…
Annie Jenkins has been filling Clarkies’ bellies for 25 years. They fill her heart.

“I hate making pancakes! They’re just an all-around hassle.” “Hey Annie, you’re not supposed to boil them, you know!” Annie Jenkins looks up from the grill at the guy wearing the NStar T-shirt and grins. He’s just delivered a good punchline, and she knows it. In fact, she would have been a little disappointed…
Charged up: Clark event heralds area’s first EV plug-in stations

The mood outside the Lasry Center for Bioscience was electric, with good reason. A number of electric vehicles (EVs) — the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi MiEV, and BMW ActiveE — were on display to help celebrate the debut of a new charging station where EV owners can “plug in.” The April 2 event…
Past tense: William Koelsch’s book illuminates Clark history

“Check the Koelsch book.” It’s the standard response to the innumerable questions that arise about Clark’s past. Why was anthropology professor Franz Boas’ research considered revolutionary for its time? Which United States president delivered Clark’s 1905 commencement address? How did Clark students respond during wartime, from the world wars through Vietnam? “Check the Koelsch book.”…
Advisory Committee expected to play key role in shaping LEEP

As deputy chief of staff for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, T.F. Scott Darling ’84 works for an organization that knows a thing about getting people from one place to another. So it seems appropriate that as he talks about Clark’s pioneering model for higher education, LEEP™ (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), Darling uses the…
Clark’s ‘golden age’ of sports to be recalled at Reunion reception

It’s safe to say that a winning attitude is nestled comfortably in Wally Halas’ DNA. He is descended from sports royalty. His great uncle, George Halas, was the legendary coach of the Chicago Bears, which steamrolled through the NFL in the ’30s and ’40s, earning the team the nickname “Monsters of the Midway.” Halas’ Bears…
Clark hosts guidance counselors for sessions on Emerging Adulthood, LEEP, college ‘investment’

They arrived on campus from Chicago and Los Angeles, St. Louis and Raleigh, Cincinnati and Minneapolis, New York and Boston. The schools they represented ran the gamut from elite private institutions to charter schools in struggling urban areas. Thirty guidance counselors and consultants from across the country spent March 18 and 19 at Clark, meeting…
Architect John Johansen recalls Goddard Library’s opening chapter

John M. Johansen considered the audience seated before him inside the Robert Hutchings Goddard Library’s Rare Book Room, and offered a humble assessment of the building he designed 43 years ago. “Architects think of their most recent work as being their best,” he said. “But they can come back to earlier work and they…
Mary-Ellen Boyle eager to assume role as dean of the college on June 1

Mary-Ellen Boyle lived in Worcester for many years before she joined the Clark University faculty full time in 1999 as a management professor. She was initially attracted to Clark’s reputation for partnering with the city, and, more specifically, with its Main South neighborhood. Today, she’s determined that a Clark student’s education extends beyond the school…