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Year in Review: 2007
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November
An interfaith food drive, the California Fire Relief program, and a nonprofit human services career fair marked the celebration of Community and Global Outreach Month, devoted to connecting the campus community with programs that reach out to others. Hofstra launched LiveLink, a new live TV feed that allows faculty and administrators to serve as experts on local and national television news and talk shows without traveling to a network or cable television studio. LiveLink offers television producers and bookers the ability to tap into our faculty’s expertise. The Frank G. Zarb School of Business announced that it will launch a new full-time day M.B.A. program in fall 2008 that will make full use of the school’s sophisticated technology, experienced faculty, growing alumni network and close proximity to New York City.
November 1 The Center for Continuing Education and Professional Advancement, in conjunction with the School of Communication, presented Persuade, Change, Influence: Innovative Multimedia Design From Psyop, a dynamic seminar given by two cutting-edge design firms.
November 2 Metropolitan area high school students were challenged to document a culture other than their own as part of an innovative summer program at Hofstra called “Documenting Diversity.” The world premiere of their documentary films took place at a red-carpet public screening on campus. The program was funded with a grant from the Phil and Monica Rosenthal Foundation (Classes of ’81 and ’84, respectively).
November 2 Hofstra expanded its Center for Suburban Studies into a National Center for Suburban Studies with a program celebrating the 60th anniversary of Levittown, the appointment of Lawrence Levy as the Center’s executive director and Christopher Niedt as its first academic director. Those events were followed by a dramatic reading of The Man Who Loved Levittown by Bob Spiotto ’84; a lecture titled “Suburbia: A Sense of Place on the Silver Screen”; and a reception for the Hofstra University Museum exhibition Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens and Weiner.
November 4 A team of three students set a new Hofstra record for the most problems solved at the 32nd Annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest for the greater New York region. The team for the “Battle of the Brains” consisted of seniors Matthew Ficken and Andrea Blumenthal and sophomore John Farrell, who completed five of nine problems using computers, the most ever by a Hofstra team. The competition drew students from 30 colleges, including Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell.
November 7 Hofstra Law School presented the 2007-2008 Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professorship of Legal Ethics Lecture Series with Carol M. Langford, an attorney from San Francisco, California, who presented “Regulation of the Profession Through the Admissions Process and the Role of Law Schools in Defining Moral Character.”
November 7 and 8 The Hofstra Cultural Center presented the symposium Bond, James Bond: The World of 007. Guests included actor and former Hofstra student Robert Davi, who played the villain in Licence to Kill; authors Ray Benson and Lee Pfeiffer; and screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, who worked on five Bond movies. One event highlight was the on-campus display of an Aston Martin DB9-Coupe. A Bond film festival preceded the symposium, and a concert, Licence to Swing, featuring 007 movie themes followed on November 9. The symposium director was Professor of Drama James Kolb.
November 9 Recent trends and changes in immigration and immigrant communities as they affect local governments, businesses, schools, and individuals were the focus of discussion at a conference titled Local Dimensions of Immigration: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Changing Communities at Hofstra Law School.
November 10 and 11 The Music Department presented concerts by Hofstra Chamber Singers, directed by David Fryling, and Hofstra Opera Theater, directed by Patricia Heuermann and David Ramael.
November 12 The Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center presented a benefit dinner honoring the NY Jets and the team’s general manager, Mike Tannenbaum. NY Jets team members also participated, and there was a silent auction of Jets merchandise and memorabilia. The Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center was founded in 1991 with a mission to support the health and wellbeing of the community and the education of Hofstra students.
November 12 to 16 Emergency Awareness Week allowed Hofstra’s emergency management team to demonstrate the new Campus Alert Notification Network (C.A.N.N.), reinforce proper procedures for fire drills and conduct personal safety workshops.
November 14 The School of Communication and WRHU Radio Hofstra University welcomed legendary broadcaster and Hofstra alumnus Dan Ingram ’56 to discuss “Personality Radio: Past and Present” in a live broadcast on WRHU.
November 14 Educators and administrators from Louisiana’s Jefferson and St. Bernard Parishes discussed with Hofstra students and faculty how they became first responders when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed their homes and schools. This International Scholars Forum was hosted by the School of Education and Allied Human Services at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan. The event was coordinated by Denny Taylor, professor of literacy studies and director of literacy studies doctoral programs.
November 17 and 18 The Music Department presented “The Voice Upon the Waters,” a program of early music with an aquatic theme at the First Presbyterian Church in Mineola, New York on November 17. The following day, the Hofstra Jazz Ensemble, directed by David Lalama, performed “Words and Music: A Jazz Portrait” for the annual Peter B. Clark Memorial Scholarship Fund concert. The concert featured jazz singer Ernie Byrd.
November 18 The Hofstra community was deeply saddened by the passing of Margaret (Peg) Finucane. She worked for many years as an adjunct professor at Hofstra before joining the full-time faculty of the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations. She came to Hofstra after an accomplished career at Newsday and The New York Times.
November 19 The Commission on Presidential Debates announced that it had chosen Hofstra University for the site of its final 2008 presidential debate, to be held on October 15. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation, has sponsored and produced every presidential and vice presidential debate since 1988.
November 27 The crisis of identity among Muslim immigrants and their children and the circumstances that cause Muslims to speak of jihad was the subject of “Identity, Religion and Ideology Among Muslim Prisoners in Britain,” a lecture by Gabriele Marranci, Ph.D., of the School of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was sponsored jointly by the Departments of Anthropology and Religion and the European Studies Program.
