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It’s Klingons to Cronkite for Sandy Fries ’76

When he was about ten years old, Sandy Fries ‘76 was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. A fireman? Doctor? Lawyer? No, he told his inquisitor. “I want to be Walter Cronkite.” Fries didn’t become the renowned news anchor, but he did learn what went into creating a Cronkite newscast.…
Clark U. political scientist authors book on congressional primary elections

The fact that fewer than fifteen percent of eligible voters showed up for the 2014 primary elections indicates that primary elections do not matter to very many citizens. However, Clark University associate professor of Political Science Robert Boatright contends that congressional primary elections matter — a lot. He explains their importance, and dispels claims and myths about them in…
Clark U. History Professor investigating rare, century-old photos of Worcester’s early residents of color

Clark University History Professor Janette Greenwood has teamed up with retired teacher and Charlton historian Frank Morrill to research the identities of some early Worcester residents — people of color — pictured in rare photographs that date back to the turn of the last century. The photos are those of the late William Bullard, of Worcester, a photographer…
Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Tretheway tells her story

Natasha Tretheway’s newest collection of poems, titled “Thrall,” enthralled an audience in Clark University’s Atwood Hall on Nov. 4, as she delved into matters of race, family, history, and the moving target that is our evolving perceptions of all three. Tretheway’s appearance was part of the African American Intellectual Culture Series and the Higgins School of Humanities’ fall dialogue…
Clark professor, alumnus examines slavery’s depiction in contemporary children’s books

The legacy of slavery might be discussed widely in the Caribbean, but here in the United States we struggle with how to teach the past to our children. So noted Raphael Rogers ’94, assistant professor of education at Clark University, in his Nov. 13 Higgins School lecture, “Slavery on their Minds: Representing the ‘Peculiar Institution’ in Contemporary Children’s Picture…
New Clark University Poll: Grown-up millennials are closely connected to parents

You know those holiday-dinner movie scenes, where aging parents and their grown children serve up bitter resentments or long-held hostilities? Good drama, maybe, but merely an escape from reality for most adults, thankfully. A new poll finds that, as the so-called millennials move into their 30s, most are enjoying strong, positive relationships with their parents,…
LEEP Fellows make their case in Hervey Ross ’50, L.H.D. ’07 Oratorical Contest

The Hervey Ross ’50, L.H.D. ’07 Oratorical Contest was designed specifically for Clark University LEEP Fellows to describe their summer projects. But presenter Katherine Liptak ’15 asserted right away that her talk would not pile on the details of the summer internship she spent in Cape Town, South Africa, but rather she would unpeel the process of rethinking…
Expert on American education achievement gap to speak at Clark University Nov. 18

Eric Schwarz, author of “The Opportunity Equation: How Citizen Teachers are Combating the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools,” will speak at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor of the Higgins University Center at Clark University. Schwarz’s lecture, “The Opportunity Equation: How a shadow education system outside of school is growing America’s achievement gap and what…
In Good Company

A troupe of Clarkies is turning the Boston theater scene on its head
A badge and a bandage

The camera crew from the CNN documentary series “Chicagoland” follows Dr. Andrew Dennis ’92 into the Trauma Unit at Cook County Hospital, where he puts his hands into the open abdomen of 24-year-old Jerimiah Milsap and works feverishly to pull him from the brink. Moments earlier, Jerimiah had been gunned down while sitting on his front porch…