Year in Review: 2007

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September

Hofstra’s Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy released a study over Labor Day weekend that concluded union membership has increased in New York City and Long Island since the late 1990s. However, the city’s membership gains have not fully kept up with overall employment growth, resulting in a slight drop (one-half percentage point) in the union density rate since the late 1990s

September 1 to 16 The Hofstra Gray Wig alumni repertory theater group presented Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical Oklahoma! at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.

September 4 The Hofstra University Museum opened the exhibition American Perspectives: 1907-1992, a historical sweep that covered predominant art movements of the 20th century, at the Emily Lowe Gallery. September 9 Students from Honors College and the Premedical/Prehealth Professional Studies program began the new semester by raising money for leukemia research while taking part in the Ocean-to-Sound Relay Race. The 50-mile race, sponsored by The Greater Long Island Running Club, began at Jones Beach and ended at the Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road station.

September 16 Hofstra celebrated the 15th annual Italian Experience Festival. September 17 Alumnus Charlie Kaye, executive producer for news at CBS Radio, spoke at Dempster Hall. His was the first talk in a radio industry speaker series leading up to the 50th anniversary of WRHU, Radio Hofstra University, in 2009.

September 18 Phillip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint launched a fall reading and discussion series that looked at love and desire in modern Jewish fiction. “Your Heart’s Desire: Sex and Love in Jewish Literature” was presented by the Hofstra University Library through a grant from the American Library Association and Nextbook.

September 18 Professor Daniel Varisco’s Middle East Studies class attended a slideshow and discussion by internationally known photographer Karim Ben Khelifa, who presented photographs taken during time he spent among the Taliban in Afghanistan.

September 19 Internationally renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland was the first guest of the fourth season of Hofstra’s “Great Writers, Great Readings” Series. Other writers who participated during the fall semester were Antonio Cisneros, Kiran Desai and Edmund White.

September 19 A press conference was held to announce the opening of Hofstra’s Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies. This new interdisciplinary center for the study of real estate brings together the expertise of Hofstra’s Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the Hofstra Law School, as well as the Institute of Real Estate at Hofstra University. The center will provide real estate professionals, municipal officials, developers and the public with information, education and scholarly analysis about the complex issues important in the real estate field.

September 24 to December 9 The Hofstra University Museum presented Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens and Weiner, a photographic exhibition presented in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of Levittown. September 27 As part of a nationwide celebration of intellectual freedom known as Banned Book Week, students, faculty and community residents read from books that have been challenged or banned from libraries and schools. The annual event was co-sponsored by the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and the Hofstra University Library.

September 28 Rutgers University’s Temma Kaplan delivered the lecture “The Shameful Times of Torture and Terror.” Her visit was co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Departments of History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Women’s Studies.

September 29 and 30 The Harvest of the Arts and Flowers, the first indoor/ outdoor Hofstra Arboretum Flower & Garden Show, was held at the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center and also at various outdoor locations on campus. This was Hofstra’s sixth annual Flower & Garden Show.