September 2002
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Campus News & Events
September 24 concert features Picasso-like band
"We are an experience, a bit avant-garde, like Picasso," says Birdsongs of the Mesozoic band member Ken Field. "If the images in Picasso's paintings existed, this would be the music they would listen to." The eclectic ensemble of new age, classical and jazz fusion will perform Tuesday, Sept. 24, at Wheaton's Weber Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. Presented by the Faculty and Friends Music Series at Wheaton, the concert is free and open to the public. For a preview, check out the group's wacky and wonderful Web site.
For information on other upcoming arts events, visit our online arts calendar.
Wheaton remembers September 11
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, marked the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Wheaton remembered with a memorial tribute and a look back.
Meet a Wheaton Student
Posse One student talks about keepin' it real
Juvie Edmund Gonzalez '04 is from Williamsburg in New York City. He runs track, builds houses for the poor and is a Big Brother. He also writes poetry and is becoming well-traveled. He came to Wheaton through Posse, a foundation helping urban public school student-leaders to attend selective colleges while promoting cross-cultural communication on campus.
Media Moments
Make global education top priority, President Marshall urges in MSNBC article
Americans need to make global education a top priority from elementary school through college, according to an article by Wheaton President Dale Rogers Marshall published by MSNBC.com. The article, also published by the Providence Journal and slated for broadcast on National Public Radio's The Best of Our Knowledge, was written to draw attention to an issue that has faded from public view in the year since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Bookshelf
Humanity headed for extinction? Wheaton faculty react with the facts
Biodiversity expert E. O. Wilson's highly acclaimed The Future of Life is the foundation for Wheaton's First Year Seminar. On the First Year Seminar homepage, faculty for the course share their reactions to the book's apocalyptic predictions of a world stripped of its magnificence: With the human population ballooning, argues Wilson, and the rate of extinction for other species at about 1,000 times the natural level, dinosaurs won't be the only "dinosaurs" on Earth: We might be next.
Wheaton's online magazine for computer science and mathematics returns for 2002
For Wheaton math and computer science alums and other interested folks, the latest edition of Integral introduces two new faculty members: Lisa Michaud, a computational linguistics and human-computer interaction specialist and Michael Kahn, a statistician and the director of quantitative analysis at Wheaton's new College Learning Center.
Athletics
Mirrione family makes gift in support of Wheaton women's soccer facility
Wheaton parents Charles 'Nick' Mirrione and his wife Marianne Mirrione have made a major commitment to renovate and update Elms Field, the college's women's soccer facility.
(A regular athletics news update is now available, delivered weekly to your desktop.)
Special Notes: Homecoming 2002
Wheaton's first Homecoming will be held on Oct. 17-20. Come back to campus for a thought-provoking, enlightening and entertaining weekend. Highlights will include "Rhythm and Verse," a Jane Ruby Lecture Series lecture by Michael S. Harper, a prize-winning writer, educator and the first poet laureate of Rhode Island; a talk by Edward James Olmos, a social activist and film and television actor (Stand and Deliver, Miami Vice); a Loser Concert Series performance by Flautas Fantasticas, featuring Brazilian, American and European music spanning three centuries; the official dedication of Watson Fine Arts and Mars Arts & Humanities and more.
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