Greetings from the Dean
My first academic year in UVM's College of Arts and Sciences is almost at an end, and I,
like all faculty members in the College, am immersed in reading and grading student work
and getting ready for graduation. Pausing from my attempt to assess what the students in
Sociology 196, "Deviance and Identity," have learned, I would like to assess what I've
learned during the last nine months. First, let me talk about the students for they are
what the College of Arts and Sciences is first and foremost about.
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Who Pays for Free Trade?
by LeeAnn Cox (the view, University of Vermont)
It's late when Stephanie Seguino's plane begins its descent into Hanoi. Viewing the city
from the night sky, her wonder at being an American invited to critique the government's
economic reforms mingles with childhood memories of bombings on the news. The moment is
profound, but it will be shadowed.
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Blue-Ribbon Panel Featured at Second Annual
Tribute to the Late Charlie Ross
The second in an annual series of public events celebrating the life of the late Charlie
Ross took place on April 25, and featured a panel discussion of prominent figures in the
public eye. The focus of discussion was "The Media and the Public Trust: The Making and
Breaking of Political Heroes."
Charlie Ross was one of the most influential and well respected...
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Professor Derk Pereboom Presents Spring
Semester Dean's Lecture Award
A standing-room only crowd gathered in the Waterman Building's Memorial Lounge on
April 6 to hear Professor Derk Pereboom of the Department of Philosophy deliver this
spring's College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture, entitled "Is Free Will an Illusion?"
The Dean's Lecture Award honors faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences who excel
as outstanding teachers and scholars.
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Celebrating Latin Day
The University of Vermont supports the study of Latin as a continuum in the
curriculum of Vermont students from the middle-school through the college years.
By continuum we mean that the study of Latin, and Greek, begun in the school
years should be expanded, not repeated, in the college years.
Cooperation among the teachers in Vermont schools and UVM's Department of Classics
is extensive, reflected in the work...
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The Best and the Brightest
Each April classes are cancelled for one afternoon in order for the UVM community
to enjoy a magnificent event. No, not the first sunny, seventy degree day, but
rather something far more noble and worthy of class cancellation — Honors Day!
Honors Day was held on April 21, 2006 in the Music Recital Hall on the UVM campus. By
all accounts it was the highlight of the academic year. Graduating seniors from
across the campus were individually honored...
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World Premiere of Michael Hopkins Composition
On April 8, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel, the Burlington Choral Society and
the University of Vermont Concert Choir, under the direction of Professor David Neiweem,
performed From Revenge to Forgiveness: Seven Songs of War and Peace, a new
composition by Associate Professor of Music, Michael Hopkins. Also on the program
was Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. The world premiere performance
of Hopkins's piece was before a full house with a chorus of 170 singers and an
orchestra of about 30. The work is a setting of seven poems, with an epilogue, by
Charles Henry Webb, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Stephen Crane, Gaius Valerius Catullus,
Rita Dove, and Lucille Clifton.
Prof. Hopkins's idea for the piece originated after September 11 when he began work on
an American requiem. Other projects took priority and Hopkins had to set aside the work
until 2005 when a sabbatical afforded him the time to focus on this large-scale composition
for chorus and orchestra dedicated to the victims of terrorism and war. Hopkins borrowed
the title for his composition from an anthology of poetry entitled Revenge and
Forgiveness, which he had read while selecting poems for his composition. The seven
movements of the piece—Revenge, Vision of Armies, Suffering, Grief, Remembrance,
Hope, Peace-Forgiveness—reflect the various stages of emotions associated with war.
The Iceman Goeth
By Joshua Brown (the view, University of Vermont)
The fate of civilization rests on Greenland. This may be an exaggeration, but
it is true that the two-mile-high ice sheet sitting atop this desolate country,
the world's largest island, contains about as much water as fills the Gulf of
Mexico. It's enough water to raise sea levels more than 20 feet, obliterating
coasts and lowlands where much of our planet's population lives.
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Look for Professor Jacques Bailly in
Hollywood Feature Film Akeelah and The Bee
Professor Jacques Bailly, an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, will
play himself in the new feature film, Akeelah and the Bee, which is opening in
Burlington on Friday, April 27.
This film stars Keke Palmer as Akeelah Anderson. She is a bright, but bored, middle
schooler from South Central Los Angeles with a talent for spelling, who is encouraged
by her teacher to enter the high school spelling bee. This warm hearted and inspirational
drama also stars Angela Bassett as Akeelah's hard-working single mom, and Laurence
Fishburne as the UCLA English professor enlisted to be her coach.
The film is based on the 2002 narrative documentary Spellbound, which highlights
the drama and intense competitiveness of the National Spelling Bee that is held in
Washington, D. C. every year.
Professor Bailly, who is the winner of the 1980 Scripps National Spelling Bee, is now
the bee's official pronouncer and appears in the film as himself. He is a strong
supporter of this event and loves the diversity of the competition—the children
of every class, race and creed united by an arcane interest and an uncommon ability
to pursue their goals with rigor.
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