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Hamilton Mourns Professor Emeritus Carol Rupprecht
Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart announced in an email to the campus community the death of long-time Professor Carol Rupprecht:
I write with the sad news that Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus Carol Schreier Rupprecht died tragically Wednesday, Nov. 15, near her home in the Adirondacks. She was 73.
Carol taught on College Hill for 33 years, first as a member of the Kirkland College faculty and later at Hamilton, from which she retired in December 2007. Known for her enthusiastic commitment to her students, she was honored, in 1996, as the third recipient (after Fred Wagner and Doug Raybeck) of the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professorship, awarded to a tenured member of the faculty who has demonstrated exceptional talent and dedication as a teacher. In the announcement naming her to the prestigious chair, she was described as "lively, caring, provocative and demanding."
Carol taught courses in Dante, Shakespeare, women writers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Her scholarship focused on dreams and literary texts, which were also the subjects of her popular senior seminar, and she served as president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and was a founder and consulting editor of the journal Dreaming. She was author of several books and numerous chapters, articles and reviews, and was a regular presenter at conferences in the U.S. and abroad.
The recipient of a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia, Carol held three degrees from Yale, including her 1977 Ph.D. in comparative literature. After becoming a member of the Hamilton faculty, she also served as associate dean of students, created and directed the English as a Second Language program and chaired the Comparative Literature Department, which she helped establish.
Carol's husband, Peter Suttmeier, a former professor of government at Hamilton, is planning a memorial service at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Keene Valley Congregational Church. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in Carol's name to the Ausable River Association, the High Peaks Educational Foundation, The Keene Valley Library Association, or The Wild Center in Tupper Lake.
Although I attended Hamilton College for only a single year (1984/85), Dr. Rupprecht's class remained with me throughout the years. With the passage of time, most of what I learned has grown rather hazy, I must confess, but what I do recall is that Dr. Rupprecht was unfailingly kind, encouraging, and deeply committed to encouraging our intellectual curiosity and development. At 18, I was, frankly, an "odious little snob," to borrow Orwell's phrase, yet Dr. Rupprecht was always patient with me and invariably evinced a sense of not only humor but perspective. About twenty-one years after I left Hamilton, I embarked on an ill-fated attempt to earn a Ph.D. of my own, in history. I emailed Dr. Rupprecht and she immediately emailed me back at length, with terrific, genuine enthusiasm. Despite my own frustrations and disappointment, it was most gratifying to hear from her. I was very saddened to learn of her death. Please accept my heartfelt condolence.
— Nicholas Corwin
Carol was a gifted discussion leader, and she fostered an open and creative classroom environment. One of my most cherished Hamilton memories is of sitting in the attic of Root Hall for our final Shakespeare Around the Globe class, eating Panera pastries graciously provided by Carol, reflecting on questions we still hadn't managed to answer (is Shakespeare in Japanese still Shakespeare?)
— Anne (Schlesinger) Armstrong
What devastating news. Carol was one of my greatest professors and staunchest supporters as I left the safe arms of Hamilton College and went out into the world. I still treasure all the wonderful emails she sent me with discussions on life, dreams, culture, and translation, and only wish I had kept in better touch in recent years. Her "Scandals of Translation" course was a truly formative one for me, brilliantly and innovatively taught as well as fascinating in its subject matter, and in a very real way it shaped my future career path. She was a riveting professor and an even more wonderful person, and her bright presence will be missed. I can only imagine the pain of her family, and I hope, as I know she would, that your dreams bring you comfort moving forward.
— Amanda (Hannoosh) Steinberg
I took Carol's Shakespeare class my junior year and was amazed by both the class and her. Despite being a Comp Lit major, this was my first class with Carol and the first time that I truly enjoyed reading Shakespeare. She made the bard come alive in that class. She was so engaged with her students and with the poetry and passion of the written word. Although that was my only class with Carol, I took her love for Shakespeare with me after graduation and have enjoyed many productions of his plays in the ensuing years, thinking of her fondly and appreciating this gift that she gave me. She is deeply missed.
— Sarah (Knapp) Damaske '99
Carol was my freshman advisor. Despite my great resistance, she gently encouraged me to move beyond my comfort zone and take courses in economics and science. I did not excel in either venture, but I learned to think in new ways. In addition to her academic advice, I greatly appreciated her sympathetic guidance through my early, I-am-feeling-overwhelmed, days at college. Although Carol was originally a Kirkland professor, I felt she was at the forefront of the new, co-ed Hamilton. The college has lost one of its brightest and best.
— Elaine Pezanowski Loft '82
Carol was a profound influence during my years at Kirkland/Hamilton as she was my faculty adviser in Comp Lit (K/H 81). She had incomparable energy and enthusiasm for her work and her students. Carl Jung once commented that the creative mind loves to play...Carol certainly embodied that. I recently visited the Hill with my daughter who is applying to Hamilton and we talked about how the close relationships between faculty and students lie at the heart of the school. I spoke at length about Carol in particular as having been one of those professors who shaped me. The work she did and espoused in dreams and Jungian archetypes was a way to shine the light on our common humanity and certainly has informed my worldview, influencing my approach to my work, family and community to this day. The contributions she made to the many students whose lives she touched live on. My deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.
— Stephanie Leiter
I am greatly saddened to read of Carol's passing. While I took many classes that I enjoyed while at Hamilton, I have a very clear memory of the one class that I took with Carol, a comp lit class, in the Fall of 1984. The class was outside my Public Policy and German concentrations, and was selected simply because I had heard that Carol was such a good professor. Carol didn't disappoint; she had a way of engaging the students, I could tell that she cared deeply about the subject and her students, and had a warm, approachable teaching style. Over the years I have thought of that class, and of Carol. My thought are with her husband (who was also my professor) and her family.
— Scott Brinitzer '85
I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Professor Carol Rupprecht's passing. Carol was my professor and senior thesis advisor. She really looked after me when I needed it. Though I may not have been mature enough at the time to appreciate all she did for me – if not for Carol's guidance, I'm not sure where I would be today. Carol was as thoughtful and loving as she was quick. What a tremendous loss.
— Zachary Kahn '06
My faculty advisor at Hamilton for four years, Carol Rupprecht embodied the highest ideals of liberal arts education. As a comparative literature major, I took almost every course that she taught during my time on the Hill. She was a gifted teacher who warmly and thoughtfully translated her passion for world literature to the classrooms and lives of a generation of Hamilton students. Though I have not seen Carol since graduation, she continued to mentor me through correspondence over the past twenty years, supporting me through the milestones of life and advising me through challenging and sometimes unconventional career decisions. Her wisdom was a source of inspiration for me, and I am privileged to have known a person who cared so deeply for what matters most in life. I am saddened to hear of her passing, and I will miss her very much.
— Glen Davis '92
The first paper I submitted to Carol in her Intro to Comp Lit Class came back with a grade that I'd rather forget and a comment that I was "too scientific" in my analysis (or something along those lines). How could I help it - I was a pre-med trying to analyze a work of literature for the first time! She changed me with that comment - although I still ended up going to medical school, I ended up majoring in Comp Lit and I think I took almost every class that she taught during my years at Hamilton. I may still have that first paper I submitted to her - I treasure it and every memory of my time in her classroom, her office and her evening seminars. It is impossible for me to think of what my time at Hamilton might have been like if I hadn't taken that class, submitted that awful paper, or followed up with her after absorbing her insightful comments. She helped many of us become better students and better people and we will always love and remember her.
— Joseph Flynn '83
Despite being a biology major Professor Rupprecht had a significant impact on my college experience. First semester of my sophomore year, I finally got around to taking one of my English requirements and signed up for her comparative literature course. After writing my first paper, Professor Rupprecht handed it back to me with no grade but a note to see her in office hours. She took the time to realize I had only been writing lab reports and papers in French until this time. We spent the next hour reviewing how I could reconstruct my paper and she advised me on how to formulate an argument. I was given another week to re-write the paper. I continued to struggle but I was extremely dedicated to getting better. Professor Rupprecht could have easily given me a grade on that paper and moved on. I probably would have been upset and used the excused that "I wasn't an English person". Her dedication not only made me a better writer but a better student. I will always remember her kind heart. We had class on 9/11 at 1pm. By this point in the day everyone was starting to realize how serious the day was becoming. Professor Rupprecht showed up to class with cookies and soda saying "Well, I don't know what to do in a situation like this, so I thought food might help.". Hamilton is the amazing institution that it is because of professors like Carol Rupprecht.
— Liz Ransom '04
Carol Rupprecht was my first and best English professor at Hamilton. She was tough, but also so encouraging that I wanted to excel for her. She gently culled my superfluous adjectives and adverbs, and guided me to better prose and analysis of poetic texts. I still have and cherish my papers from her class. My favorite, because she liked the title so much, was on Paradise Lost. "Escape from Eden: A Paradise Within" Rest well, gentle, kind and demanding professor. You are missed.
— Tim Carney '78
My heart goes out to her and her family. I have only taken one course from Professor Rupprecht while at Hamilton, but it had the most enduring impact in my intellectual and academic pursuits. Towards the end of the course she sent me an email which is still embedded in my memory to this day - her letter was so touching and encouraging that I have been planning to get in touch with her again. Unfortunately, it would not happen.
— Jennifer Park
What sad news. Prof. Rupprecht was one of my favorite teachers for any course ever. Her courses, which caused me to minor in comparative literature, had a way of permanently and profoundly altering the way I approach literature to this day. She will be sorely missed.
— Dean Bottino '91
I was never able to take a class with Carol, but she played a big part in my Hamilton experience nonetheless. She was a guest speaker in a literature class I took and spoke about dream theory. After the class, I ended up emailing back and forth with her about my own crazy dreams. There was one nightmare that was stuck in my mind and bothering me and she suggested that I use that energy and put it into a piece of music, since I was a music major. I hopped on my computer and did just that and when I was finished composing, the heavy weight of the nightmare was gone.
— E. Foley '01
It was the first year of full-coeducation, and I had the great good fortune to have Carol as my adviser. She encouraged me to take her own Intro to Comp Lit course, and I remember how she turned us all onto the Gilgamesh which seemed to hold the key to the meaning of life itself. We had classes outside under trees just like the pictures in the brochures. Carol was so earthy and intellectual--the archetypal liberal arts college professor. I was not a conventional Hamilton guy, and Carol steered me towards courses (art, philosophy, sociology) that would be a good fit for me. I became enamored by Kirkland College lore, and I bought one of the last Kirkland T-shirts left in the bookstore. When I wore it into a meeting with Carol one day, she said to me with pure delight, "You are the last of the Kirkies." It was such a compliment. Carol was my "gateway drug" to the Comp Lit department and she encouraged me to take courses with Nancy and Peter Rabinowitz, which were highlights of my time at Hamilton. Although I majored in sociology, I felt like the Comp Lit department was my spiritual home. Even when she was no longer my advisor, I always felt like Carol was my guardian angel on the Hill.
— Dan Shaw '82
What I remember most about Carol Rupprecht was that she was always smiling: whether she was walking into a class preparing to teach, talking animatedly with her colleagues in McEwen, or sitting at her desk in Root Hall during office hours. I also remember that she made the most perceptive comments on my papers, that I ever received on the undergraduate or graduate level. One in particular (about my combination of intellect and emotion) still resonates strongly with me because it is an observation that comes up regularly with those I am closest to, and one that accurately characterizes my chosen career path. My deepest condolences to her husband, Peter Suttmeier, another favorite professor of mine at Hamilton.
— Pamela Fanning


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WORCESTER, Mass. — After digging a big hole early, the Yale University baseball team found itself one key hit away from a come-from-behind win. Unfortunately, that hit never came in a non-league game at Holy Cross on Tuesday.
Yale fell behind in the fourth inning when Holy Cross used two hits, three walks, a hit batter and an outfield error to plate five runs, four of them unearned. The Crusaders scored one more run in the sixth, which turned out to be just enough insurance in a 6-5 win over the Bulldogs at Fitton Field in Yale's final non-league game of the season.
Yale had things working in its favor early on. After two walks and a hit batter, Trey Rallis, the Ivy League Player of the Week, belted a one-out single to right-center field to drive in Cale Hanson for the first run of the game. Yale loaded the bases with two outs in the inning but could not score again.
All of the damage done by the Crusaders in the fourth inning came with two outs. The first two batters in the inning were retired before Nick Ciardiello started the Crusaders' rally with a single through the right side. Chris Sintetos was hit by a pitch and then Josh Olson reached on an infield single that loaded the bases. Jordan Enos then walked to drive in the first run of the inning. An outfield error on a fly ball by Patrick Puentes allowed two more runs to score. Another walk loaded the bases and the third walk of the inning drove in the fourth run. A wild pitch allowed Puentes to score the final run of the inning. By the time the dust had settled, Yale saw its 1-0 lead turn into a 5-1 deficit.
Yale cut the deficit to 5-2 in the sixth inning when Andrew Moore drove in Andy Megee with an RBI groundout.
Holy Cross added the insurance run in the bottom of the sixth when Andrew Barry's RBI single with one out drove in Olson to give the Crusaders a 6-2 lead.
Charlie Neil doubled with one out in the seventh and scored an unearned run on an infield error to cut Yale's deficit to 6-3. The Bulldogs had runners on first and second with two outs but could not plate any more runs in the inning.
With one out in the ninth inning, the Bulldogs chipped away at the Crusaders' lead a little more. Neil singled with one out and Hanson followed with a two-run home run to bring the Bulldogs within a run. Megee's infield single and a walk by Rallis kept the rally going. However, the Crusaders quashed any remaining hopes the ?Bulldogs had of completing the comeback when Hauser forced Josh Scharff to fly out to center field and Ryan Brenner to line out to third to end the game.
Yale outhit Holy Cross 10-6 and had the benefit of three Crusader errors. All 10 Yale hits came from five players. Neil, Megee, Rallis, Hanson, and Moore each had two hits. Neil and Hanson each scored a pair of runs.
Yale closes out the regular season this weekend with a pair of Ivy League doubleheaders against Brown. Yale will host Brown on Friday for Senior Day before traveling to Providence on Saturday to finish out the Ivy League campaign. Both doubleheaders are scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
The Bulldogs enter the final Ivy League weekend in a first-place tie with Dartmouth atop the Red Rolfe Division. The division champion advances to a best-of-three Ivy League Championship series against the winner of the Lou Gehrig Division next week.
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Piers Morgan tried to woo Vogue creative director Grace Coddington over dinner at the Waverly Inn the other night, but she didn't recognize the CNN host. While Coddington, who stole the show in the documentary "The September Issue," was dining with photographer Bruce Weber and others, Morgan came over to introduce himself. A witness relates: "Piers told Grace he wanted to meet her for some time. He told her, 'You're my idol, and I loved your documentary.' " When the editor looked blank, Morgan pressed on, "You had me in your magazine, remember?" — referring to a profile of him in Vogue's October issue as he prepared to replace Larry King. Morgan confirmed the incident, telling us: "Then she remembered. Or pretended to. I didn't mind because Kiefer Sutherland came over and said he'd come on the show. He gave me the Jack Bauer line, 'Go kill it, Piers.' " His show, "Piers Morgan Tonight," starts on Jan. 17.
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The Washington Capitals were one of the busiest teams Friday when the doors to the 2011 NHL free agent market opened, as general manager George McPhee sent goalie Semyon Varlamov to Colorado for a pair of draft picks and added three veterans to the lineup.
In signing role player and former Capitals captain Jeff Halpern, two-way defenseman Roman Hamrlik and a big-bodied, hard working winger in Joel Ward, Washington elevated the leadership in a still-young dressing room and filled holes in the roster that will be left by the departure of up to five unrestricted free agents.
McPhee also brought clarity to the Capitals' goaltending situation by dealing Varlamov to the Avalanche for the two draft picks. Whether the flurry of moves Friday is the end of the Capitals' changes this offseason, though, remains uncertain, and McPhee didn't rule out the possibility of more alterations to the lineup.
"I feel like our team is complete," McPhee said Friday. "We can fiddle around see what develops the rest of the summer, but if we do nothing going into September we're in really good shape."
The Philadelphia Flyers agreed to terms with free agent Jaromir Jagr, the team said Friday after other clubs dropped out of the bidding for the five-time NHL scoring champion and former Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but local media said the Czech Republic forward, who has not played in the NHL since the 2007-2008 season, agreed to a one-year contract for $3.3 million.
After Friday's signings, the Capitals have a little more than $2 million remaining under the salary cap of $64.3 million with restricted free agents Karl Alzner and Troy Brouwer, who likely will receive raises from their previous contracts, still to sign. Teams are allowed to be over the salary cap by 10 percent during the summer, though, and only need to be in compliance by Oct. 1.
Comments from owner Ted Leonsis, who indicated earlier in the week that the Capitals would be an active participant in free agency, also left room for more tweaks to the roster.
"We have plenty of time left to continue to re-craft the team," Leonsis wrote on his blog, Ted's Take. "As promised."
Arguably the most dramatic move Friday was McPhee's trade of Varlamov to the Avalanche for a first-round draft pick in 2012 and a second-round selection in the Capitals' choice of either 2012 or 2013.
Varlamov, 23, appeared in 27 gamesduring the 2010-11 regular season and had a .924 save percentage and 2.23 goals against average, but his availability was severely limited by groin and knee injuries. That missed time resulted in Michal Neuvirth asserting himself to become the Capitals' postseason starter. Varlamov, a restricted free agent, was no longer assured of being the team's go-to netminder and said he would rather play in Eastern Europe's Kontinental Hockey League.
But on Friday, Varlamov agreed to a new contract with the Avalanche reportedly worth $5.5 million over two years.
"The issue really was that he wanted to be, I think in his mind, guaranteed that he's the number one guy and to be paid like that," said McPhee, who added that he was surprised the Capitals were able to get the return for Varlamov that they did from the Avalanche considering his injury history. "We couldn't guarantee that, not with the competition that we had at that position. You really can't guarantee any player anything."
In its first move of the day, Washington brought back fan favorite and Potomac native Jeff Halpern on a one-year contract worth $825,000. The veteran center will enter his 12th NHL season in the fall and McPhee said Halpern, 35, is already penciled in to the fourth-line center spot.
Halpern is "really good at faceoffs, [a] really good penalty-kill guy," McPhee said. "He got 26 points last year, which is more than we got out of that position last year. We want players to be able to fulfill certain roles but also generate offense."
Hamrlik, 37, signed a two-year deal worth $7 million. He will bring stability and plenty of experience —the left-handed Czech has played the second-most games (1,311) among active NHL defensemen— to Washington's blue line.
Hamrlik, who averaged more than 22 minutes per game for the Montreal Canadiens last season, also gives Washington added insurance should Tom Poti, who missed most of the 2010-11 campaign with a groin injury and is fighting for his career, be unable to play.
"He might be a very good fit with Mike Green right now," McPhee said. "Mike brings some real good sense, and puck movement and good defensive play."
The Capitals also signed 6-foot-1, 218-pound winger Joel Ward to a four-year deal worth $12 million. McPhee acknowledged that the price was about 15 percent more than Washington had anticipated spending on the former Nashville Predator, but that 16 teams were involved in the bidding.
Ward, 30, recorded 10 goals and 29 points in 80 regular season games for the Predators but kicked things up a notch in the playoffs, where in 13 games he led the team in goals (7), assists (6) and points (13).
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State Representative Martin J. Walsh and Councilor John R. Connolly emerged Tuesday atop a crowded field vying to become Boston's next mayor, propelled by well-funded campaigns that outmuscled and outorganized the competition.
With all precincts counted, Walsh finished first in the preliminary election with 18.5 percent of the vote, and Connolly closely followed, at 17.2 percent. They beat 10 other candidates to advance to the Nov. 5 final election.
"I'm ecstatic," Walsh said, citing the hard work of the volunteers on his campaign. "I'm also grateful for the other candidates in the race. I've talked to most of them. They are great people. They are great public servants. They were difficult phone calls. They love this city."
At a time when Boston is increasingly diverse, Tuesday's results mean that the city's next mayor will be a white man of Irish heritage, extending a three-decade run during which a candidate of color has failed to make it to the mayoral final.
But neither Walsh, who speaks often of his support of programs helping women and minorities and his vote in favor of gay marriage, nor Connolly, who has staked a political career on education reform, fits neatly into the preassigned box of the old-school Irish pol.
Former city housing chief Charlotte Golar Richie, the only woman in a field of 12, finished third with 13.8 percent. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley was fourth, at 11.3 percent.
Four candidates — City Councilor Felix G. Arroyo, political newcomer John F. Barros, City Councilor Rob Consalvo, and City Councilor Michael P. Ross — were tightly bunched, with between 7.2 and 8.8 percent of the vote. Turnout was relatively low, with 113,222 ballots cast, representing 31 percent of the city's registered voters.
Connolly held a victory rally at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, telling an enthusiastic audience that he has never been "more thankful to be in second place." The setting for the celebration in the heart of Boston's black community was a strategic choice as the race pivots to the final election.
"Our campaign looks like the face of the city of Boston. I'm no stranger to this hall," Connolly said. "I drop my daughter off for school every day less than a mile from here. We have, and will continue to run, a citywide campaign."
With Walsh and Connolly in the final, the race to succeed five-term incumbent Mayor Thomas M. Menino shapes up as a clash between the State House and City Hall. It pits Walsh, the son of Irish immigrants who decades ago was grazed by a bullet on a dark Dorchester street, against Connolly, a Harvard-educated native of Boston's leafy parkways.
It features one campaign bolstered by the might and money of labor, and another resolutely focused on fixing city schools.
The madcap preliminary race for mayor gives way to a final election that could ignite interest among an electorate that has shown scant interest. The campaign will leave behind the exploits of a dozen voices clamoring, albeit civilly, to be heard above the chaos at myriad candidate forums.
The 46-year-old Walsh and Connolly, 40, will now be the only two on stage. They are two candidates with different styles: One is an exuberant union official, and the other is a methodical attorney. Voters will hear two distinct sets of ideas. And ultimately, the electorate will choose between competing visions for Boston's future.
Walsh topped the ticket with an army of volunteers, many of whom came from the ranks of labor. A nine-term state representative from Dorchester, Walsh served as both an elected official and a labor executive. His father and uncle were leaders of Laborers Local 223, and Walsh joined at age 21 and became a benefits officer.
After being elected to the Legislature in 1997, Walsh became president of Local 223. He rose to lead the Boston Building Trades, an umbrella group that represents unions of ironworkers, electricians, and others. Walsh resigned the building trades post to run for mayor, but organized labor formed the bedrock of his campaign.
By Sept. 15, almost $2 million had been spent on behalf of Walsh, a figure that exceeded what any other candidates spent.
That included almost $1.3 million from Walsh's campaign, which received $385,000 in direct contributions from labor unions and political committees. Under state law, unions can give up to $15,000, far beyond the $500 limit for individuals. Firefighters unions alone gave Walsh $46,500.
Outside groups affiliated with or funded by organized labor spent another $700,000, running television advertisements and sending canvassers door to door.
But Walsh extended his campaign beyond labor. He is a recovering alcoholic, and some of his most avid supporters are people in the recovery community.
Connolly's campaign was animated by the candidate's call for fixing Boston's schools. As a city councilor, he organized parents of schoolchildren, giving him an army of mothers who have served as foot soldiers in his bid to become mayor.
Perhaps most important, Connolly became the only candidate to dare to challenge a five-term incumbent, launching his campaign in February before Menino declared he would not seek reelection.
The mayor announced his retirement at the end of March, but Connolly had a significant headstart raising money and building a robust political operation.
Ultimately, a dozen candidates qualified for the race. The sixth-month sprint proved especially difficult for candidates not in elected office.
There was simply not enough time to raise money and build an organization.
Connolly's campaign had spent almost $1.2 million by Sept. 15, the third most in a race with wide disparities in fund-raising. An education reform group spent $64,000 more on Connolly's behalf, but ceased its efforts in August at the candidate's request.
Controversy briefly ensnared Connolly when a separate education group promised to spend $500,000 to help elect him.
Connolly accepted the group's endorsement, but then asked them and all other outside groups not to spend money on his behalf.
Walsh also began quietly laying groundwork for a run for mayor — raising money and building a formidable campaign — before Menino announced he would not seek another term.
Menino's decision unleashed two decades of pent-up political ambition. Two dozen candidates initially pulled papers to run for mayor, and 12 qualified for the ballot.
The city's political circles buzzed through the summer, but Boston's broader electorate seemed apathetic. The city has faced 20 separate elections since 2010. And the sheer number of candidates in the mayor's race proved daunting to some voters.
But for some elected officials, this was their chance. Conley jumped into the race with $868,000, a war chest he had amassed running unopposed for a decade as district attorney. He raised $900,000 more and spent heavily on television advertising. But Conley fell short.
Arroyo gave up his seat on the City Council after two terms and became the first Latino in Boston ever to appear on the ballot for mayor. But Arroyo struggled to raise money and lost several key union endorsements to Walsh.
Consalvo spent a decade on the City Council and never hid his ambition to succeed Menino, his Hyde Park neighbor and friend. Consalvo's campaign had trouble extending beyond Hyde Park and the city's other Italian enclaves.
Ross also gave up his seat on the council and ran a campaign targeting hip urbanites. He raised almost $800,000 and spent heavily on television, which included a notable ad that had him running through the city.
Golar Richie was the last major candidate to jump into the race and her campaign never really hit its stride, struggling to raise money. She was the only woman on the ballot with 11 men, presumed to be an advantage with an electorate that has more women than men.
Barros is a political newcomer who significantly raised his profile during the campaign. He was the first person of Cape Verdean descent to run for mayor.
Bill Walczak, cofounder of a Dorchester health center, was also a first-time candidate. He made his opposition to a proposed casino at Suffolk Downs a centerpiece of his campaign.
In the end, only Connolly and Walsh will advance to the final.
It will look like a return to old Boston, when men of Celtic ancestry ruled City Hall for more than half a century. It was Menino, the self-styled urban mechanic, who blazed a trail when he took office in 1993, becoming the first Italian-American to occupy the mayor's fifth-floor office at City Hall.
The stewardship of the city now will pass to a new generation. Both finalists are younger than Menino when he took office. The men battling to become Boston's 48th mayor will replace someone who will be 71 when he leaves the post.
"We are stepping into a new era," Walsh told a crowd Tuesday night at Venezia in Dorchester over chants of "Mar-ty! Mar-ty! "We recognize the next 20 years will be different from the last. New problems. New opportunities. New challenges. The vote we cast on November 5th must be about the new direction our city will take."Andrew Ryan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Wesley Lowery and Joshua Miller of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Andrew Ryan can be reached at email@example.com. Wesley Lowery and Joshua Miller of the Globe staff contributed to this report.


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Jan. 28, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - After four successful seasons with UC Santa Barbara's women's volleyball team, Greg Gibbons is leaving the program to become the head coach at Big West rival Pacific. Gibbons served under legendary Head Coach Kathy Gregory for four season, the last two as Associate Head Coach.
Gibbons was an integral part of the Gaucho program in his time at UCSB, leading the recruiting efforts to assemble much of the 2009 squad that went 22-8 and earned an NCAA Tournament berth. He helped land Big West Player of the Year and All-American Rebecca Saraceno as well as All-American setter Dana Vargas and First Team All-Big West player Stacey Schmidt.
While at UCSB Gibbons coached three All-Americans, three All-Region players, 10 All-Big West players and six All-Freshman players. Twice he helped lead UCSB to the NCAA Tournament and has helped assemble a 2010 squad that is loaded with talent and could challenge for the Big West title.
"We will really miss Greg," Gregory said. "He has been such an integral part of the UC Santa Barbara volleyball program the last four years. But I realize an opportunity like this doesn't come around everyday. This is one of the premier jobs in the country because of their national recognition, their tradition and their commitment to volleyball."
Gibbons will take over a Pacific team that went 17-11 overall and 7-9 in the Big West in 2009. It is his first Division I head coaching position, but not his first job at the helm of a program. Gibbons went 41-29 as the head coach at Cal Lutheran University from 2003-05, leading the Regals to an 18-3 mark, a conference championship and a final NCAA Division III national ranking of No. 18 his final season. He guided CLU to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in 2005 while mentoring a First Team AVCA All-American, Mo Coverdale. In 2004, Cal Lutheran finished with a West Region ranking of 7th and was ranked as high as No. 25 in the national poll.
He has also worked extensively on the club circuit and spent three seasons with a Pepperdine's men's volleyball program that won a national title, was a national runner-up and went to a Final Four in all three years he was there.
A search for a replacement at UCSB will begin immediately.


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Parente: Yankees need a little Boston luck in 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
The New York Yankees have a habit of treating every non-playoff season like a post-divorce midlife crisis, making impetuous decisions with their money and drastically changing their appearance, whatever it takes to convince themselves they're not too old or out of touch with reality. The only thing missing is an awkward hairpiece.
The extra outfielders, the power-hitting catcher and the pricy Japanese ace are beautiful showroom additions in full display mode until the real test drive begins in April.
But the Yankees need more than impulse buys to compete in 2014.
They need luck, too.
The Yankees need a season where everyone comes up aces and everything they touch turns to gold, like the 2013 Red Sox, who defied long odds and lowered expectations with a motley crew of castoffs to win their third World Series title in the past 10 years.
Coming off a last-place finish in 2012, no one thought the Red Sox would amount to squat last year, not even the team's official mouthpiece, The Boston Globe, which, in its baseball preview published in March, predicted the Red Sox would "probably not" make the playoffs, let alone win it all.
How did they do it?
Much like the Yankees have done this offseason, the Red Sox dove head-first into the free-agent pool, this time targeting the undesirable, relatively-inexpensive, dregs of the open market in lieu of the egregious spending that put them in such financial peril the previous winter. In a span of two weeks, they added catcher Mike Napoli, shortstop Stephen Drew, reliever Koji Uehara, starter Ryan Dempster, and outfielders Jonny Gomes and Shane Victorino, a reasonable bar tab of $86 million after shedding more than $100 million in payroll, and added a new manager, John Farrell, eliminating the stench of failure left behind by Bobby Valentine.
They also got incredibly lucky.
The 38-year-old Uehara, a natural setup man who pitched only 36 innings the previous year, filled in masterfully when the Red Sox lost closers Andrew Bailey and Joel Hanrahan, saving a career-high 21 games – more than he had in his entire career entering last season – and allowing only one earned run over the final three months of the regular season.
Victorino, another player considered to be on the decline after regressing mightily in 2012, posted a career high .294 batting average with 15 home runs, 26 doubles and an .801 OPS – his best in three years – before becoming the toast of the town in October when his grand slam against the Tigers in Game 6 of the ALCS sent Boston to the World Series.
Napoli, who almost flunked his physical due to a bum hip that delayed his eventual signing by six weeks, slugged 23 home runs and drove in 92 while channeling his inner Babe Ruth with three grand slams, including a backbreaker in the Bronx in September that effectively eliminated the Yankees from playoff contention. Gomes, despite appearing in only 116 games, made his impact felt with a franchise record four pinch-hit home runs.
Thanks to the contributions from the new additions, and the resurgence of David Ortiz, who was so bad three years ago Terry Francona was pinch-hitting for him in the late innings, the offense that was supposed to struggle to score runs wound up scoring a league-best 853 with a league-high .795 OPS.
And that rotation that was supposed to be in disarray with a declining Jon Lester and the uncertainty of Jon Lackey's surgically-repaired elbow turned out just fine as Lester bounced back from a 14-loss season with 15 wins while Lackey, despite not pitching in more than a year, posted a 3.52 ERA. Even Clay Buchholz, who had yet to prove he could be a reliable, front-line starter, enjoyed a breakthrough season, lowering his ERA from 4.56 in 2012 to a dazzling 1.74 – albeit in fewer innings due to injury – while finishing 12-1.
All the stars aligned for the 2013 Red Sox. It was the Haley's Comet of baseball seasons. Somehow, someway, everything and everyone fit, a remarkable feat no team – not even these same Red Sox – could replicate if they tried another hundred times. Players filled roles seamlessly when others got hurt, and the few stars who didn't fall into orbit knew better than to spoil the party for everyone else.
Where do the Yankees tie in?
The slim chance of Boston duplicating 2013, coupled with the likelihood of a similar, unexpected renaissance by the Yankees, is enough to bring unbridled joy to the Bronx, unless you think Haley's Comet will strike again next year.
The same roundtable experts and talking heads who dismissed Boston's chances last season long before the team flew north for the summer are already reading the Yankees their last rites, too, with the same tired rhetoric. They're too old. They're unproven. The don't have enough depth. Their rotation has too many question-marks.
The fatal flaw in statistical analysis and preseason projections is they rely more on logic than luck, dismissing the intangles that often play a bigger role than expected. Logic would've told us Lackey wouldn't be able to bounce back from Tommy John surgey at 32. Logic would've never given Uehara a chance to play Mariano Rivera for an entire summer. The reality is if Lackey can turn back the clock six years following major elbow surgery there's no reason a slimmer, healthier C.C. Sabathia can't turn it back at least two years, and so on and so forth.
With no organizational depth to speak of outside of maybe two or three decent chips in Double-A Trenton, the Yankees lacked the reinforcements to sustain their hard-luck fall from grace in 2013, a precipitous drop fueled mainly by injuries and age. They're actually older this year despite losing 40-somethings Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera, but they're healthier, too, which translates to better luck already with far less reliance on not-ready-for-primetime farmhands.
Luck is a tricky intangible to predict. The team no one thought could even make the playoffs last year might prove everyone wrong a second time this season, or perhaps the team with that dark, ominous cloud over its head might surprise the experts predicting another quiet October in the Bronx.
The Yankees needed every last dollar necessary to bring in Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann, Carlos Beltran and Masahiro Tanaka. They had no choice. They also need whatever good karma shifted its way to Boston last year, because all the money in the world and all the shiny new toys aren't enough to guarantee success over the course of 162 games.
Luck helps, too.
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Welcome from Ronald D. Liebowitz
President, Middlebury College
August 17, 2012
Mead Memorial Chapel
Good evening, I am Ron Liebowitz, president of Middlebury College, and it is a pleasure to welcome you to the 2012 Commencement ceremony of the Middlebury Language Schools.
One of the College's most important symbols is Gamaliel Painter's cane. At commencement seven years ago we added a new tradition in the Language Schools—a tradition that we began in the undergraduate college in 1996: granting each graduate a replica of Gamaliel Painter's cane. As each of you leaves the platform, Vice President for College Advancement Jim Keyes and Acting Dean of International Programs Paul Monod will present you with a replica of Gamaliel Painter's cane. In presenting the cane to you, we signify your passage into the distinguished alumni body of Middlebury College, and commemorate the beginning of a new and lifelong relationship between you and Middlebury. A few words about the cane and the person who left this symbol and a great legacy to our College
Gamaliel Painter was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1742. As the youngest son of a Connecticut Yankee family, he sought independence and greater opportunity, and moved his family to what was then the wilds of Vermont during the 1770s. A true entrepreneur at heart, he delved into a number activities and businesses, some successful, others less so.
In the closing years of the 18th century, Painter led a group of townspeople who, like Painter, believed that if the town of Middlebury were to prosper, and if the larger Champlain Valley were to flourish, it needed an institution of higher learning. After two failed attempts, Painter and his fellow townsmen secured a charter from the State of Vermont, so that, on November 4, 1800, Middlebury College opened its doors.
Painter and his mostly Yale educated Puritan co-founders, who together donated $4,150 to construct the first college building, knew they were undertaking a bold "experiment" in higher education. Yet they persevered.
For 19 years after the College's founding, Painter walked the streets of the growing town and carried with him his walking stick, the cane, a replica of which each of you will receive later this evening. At his death in 1819, Gamaliel Painter left a bequest of more than $13,000, which secured the College's future.
I tell you this story because what has brought us to the present has been the vision of Gamaliel Painter, and the elaboration of that vision by generation upon generation of his successors. Those successors also knew, instinctively, that if they got the big picture right, the smaller details would follow, and that the College would grow and prosper, thanks to the confidence, courage, commitment, and wisdom that several latter-day Painters exemplified.
One of those latter-day Painters was Lilian Stroebe. Stroebe was the founder of the German School, the first Language School at Middlebury, which opened in 1915. Looking back after its founding, Stroebe praised Middlebury's unusual willingness to experiment and innovate when she said, "No college at the time would have been willing to open its summer session to ideas that were absolutely new and had not proved their value . . ."
Stroebe got her inspiration about Middlebury's perfect location for an immersion program from a Vassar College colleague, Marian Whitney. Looking from her window of a Rutland Railroad coach while traveling through Vermont, Whitney noticed new buildings under construction on a hilltop, obviously part of a college; a fellow passenger across the aisle informed her she was looking at Middlebury College and the new foundations of what would become Hepburn Hall and Mead Chapel, the very building we are in this evening. Seeing those buildings she concluded she had found the ideal site for the German School, for which Professor Stroebe had been searching for three years.
Over the next 98 years, this "ideal site" has proven the wisdom of Marian Whitney's recommendation and Lilian Stroebe's vision.
As we observe and celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates this evening, and the traditional rites associated with our commencement exercise, we remind ourselves that the sustained pursuit of foreign language study and culture, and an awareness of the fact that, through such study we break down multiple barriers and increase inter-cultural understanding, has become a great distinguishing characteristic of this institution. The Language Schools have been a large part of this special claim, which we treasure and honor.
The spirit of Gamaliel Painter and Lillian Stroebe, and those who inspired and supported them, was carried on at Middlebury by the late Stephen Freeman, professor of French for 38 years, and director of the Language Schools for 24 years; and lives on now in Betty Ashbury Jones, graduate of the French School, emeritus member of the board of trustees, and unparalleled supporter of scholarships to the Language Schools; and in Kathryn Wasserman Davis, our 105-year-old benefactor and ardent champion of language learning in the name of advancing international peace, for whom the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian is named.
And each of you is now a part of this special tradition. You go forth with our blessings and our best wishes, bearing the mark of this College and the high expectations of you that come from being a graduate of Middlebury. Your new alma mater welcomes you to the family this evening. Congratulations.


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A Fletcher dairy farm and one of its owners pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to criminal violations of the Clean Water Act.
A Fletcher dairy farm and one of its owners pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to criminal violations of the Clean Water Act, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
A criminal bill of information filed in U.S. District Court on Nov. 11 charged Tap Root Dairy, LLC, and William "Billy" Franklin Johnston, 60, of Mills River with one count of violation of the Clean Water Act in connection with the discharge of cow feces into the French Broad River in December 2012.
According to documents filed and statements made in court, Tap Root is one of the state's largest dairies, maintaining several hundred cows and managing hundreds of acres of crops in Fletcher. In the annual course of its operations, Tap Root collects and recycles millions of pounds of solid and liquid animal waste, which are considered pollutants under the Clean Water Act.
Pete Anderson, a former federal prosecutor practicing in Asheville, Charlotte and Washington, D.C., who represents Johnston and Tap Root, said the business is permitted to recycle its animal waste through a containment and irrigation system, which was upgraded in the late 1980s.
Anderson said that the dairy spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade its system, installing two containment ponds, which collect, separate and prepare waste to be reapplied as fertilizer to the farm's crop fields.
"During operations, liquid and solid animal waste is moved by tractor from the feeding areas into a temporary holding area, called a 'separator,' which separates the solid waste from liquid waste," according to the bill. "The waste then travels to a primary waste storage lagoon, where solids are supposed to settle, and liquid waste gravity flows through a pipe to a secondary waste storage lagoon.
"High levels of fecal coliform bacteria exist in dairy cow waste. The liquid waste in the secondary waste storage lagoon is permitted to be land-applied on the adjacent crop fields with irrigation equipment. As part of routine maintenance, accumulated solids can be removed from the primary and secondary storage lagoons. The solids can also be land-applied into the permitted crop fields."
Without regular maintenance, the lagoons can back up, jeopardizing regulated "freeboard" levels used to insure containment and avoid overflows. The primary storage pond can hold a little over a million gallons. The secondary lagoon can hold up to 2,543,200 gallons and "is sufficient to store all liquid waste, contaminated runoff and rainfall for a period of 90 days," according to the bill. "Tap Root Dairy failed to check and maintain freeboard levels in the secondary lagoon for 93 days."
In the thick of the company's busy harvest last fall, while workers were distracted with business obligations, Anderson said the waste "spilled over the top" on Dec. 4, 2012, and entered a creek about 200 yards away.
"They immediately cooperated with authorities the minute they were aware of it," Anderson said, adding that the spill was stopped in about 45 minutes.
There have been no problems reported since the incident, he said.
However, the spill resulted in the discharge of 11,000 gallons cow feces and other waste into the French Broad River, according to the news release from U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins' office.
Fishermen stumbled upon the drainage and notified French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson, who called state Division of Water Quality officials. They piled dirt onto the river bank to block the leakage and irrigated the waste onto designated land to lower the pond level.
In addition to pleading guilty to violating the Clean Water Act, Tap Root also agreed to pay a fine of $80,000, which will be directed to entities that safeguard the French Broad River and other environmental concerns in the Southeast; to abandon any appeal to a related $13,507.82 North Carolina State civil penalty; to serve a probationary term of four years during which regulators and investigators can inspect the dairy's records and facilities without notice and without a warrant; and to design and implement a compliance plan subject to approval by the EPA.
Anderson said that the charges are misdemeanor violations. He noted that his clients are "glad they were able to resolve this unfortunate negligent event without a trial. The dairy has taken all steps to correct the problems that led to this release."
Anderson said sentencing before a U.S. magistrate will likely take place in five to six months, though no date has been set.
At sentencing, Johnston faces a maximum prison term of one year and has agreed to pay an additional fine of $15,000, according to the news release.
The French Broad River supplies drinking water to more than one million people and is frequently used for recreational water activities, such as swimming and kayaking.
In 2012, North Carolina listed the French Broad River from Mud Creek to N.C. Highway 146 as impaired for fecal coliform bacteria, according to the release. Tap Root is located on this impaired section of the French Broad River.
The farm has had previous violations from 2006 to 2010, including failure to maintain an operator's certification, failure to provide records, failure to renew a permit and failure to collect soil analyses and waste analyses.
In 2007 and 2008, Johnston was cited for the discharge of silage leachate to a wetland area adjacent to the French Broad River. Silage leachate can significantly impact the river by robbing the water of dissolved oxygen.
The investigation of this case was conducted by special agents of the EPA's Criminal Investigation Division, and the State Bureau of Investigation's Diversion and Environmental Crimes Unit. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant United States Attorney Steven R. Kaufman of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte.


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Spans and Cospans
I was busy all yesterday with my talk at George Washington, so today I'll make up for it by explaining one of the main tools that went into the talk. Coincidentally, it's one of my favorite examples of a weak 2-category.
We start by considering a category with pullbacks. A span in is a diagram of the form . We think of it as going from to . It turns out that we can consider these to be the morphisms in a weak 2-category , whose objects are just the objects of .
Now since this is supposed to be a 2-category we need 2-morphisms to go between spans. Given spans and a 2-morphism from the first to the second will be an arrow from to making the triangles on the sides of the following diagram commute:
We compose 2-morphisms in the obvious way, stacking these diamond diagrams on top of each other and composing the arrows down the middle.
The composition for 1-morphisms is where it gets interesting. If we have spans and we compose them by overlapping them at and pulling back the square in the middle, as in the following diagram:
where the middle square is a pullback. Then the outer arrows form a span .
Notice that this composition is not in general associative. If we have three spans , , and , we could pull back on the left first, then on the right, or the other way around:
But the object at the top of each diagram is a limit for the along the bottom of the diagram. And thus the two of them must be isomorphic, and the isomorphism must commute with all the arrows from to an object along the bottom. In particular, it commutes with the arrows from to and to , and thus gives a canonical "associator" 2-morphism. I'll leave the straightforward-but-tedious verification of the pentagon identity as an exercise.
What is the identity span? It's just , where the arrows are the identity arrows on . When we pull back anything along the identity arrow on , we get the same arrow again. Thus the 2-morphisms we need for the left and right unit are just the identities, and so the triangle identity is trivially true. Thus we have constructed a 2-category from any category with pullbacks.
The concept of a cospan is similar, but the arrows (predictably) run the other way. A cospan in a category with pushouts (instead of pullbacks) is a diagram of the form . Everything else goes the same way — 2-morphisms are arrows in the middle making the side triangles commute, and composition of cospans goes by pushing out the obvious square.
Unusual as it is for this weblog, I'd like to make one historical note. Spans and cospans were introduced by Bénabou in the early 1960s. This was first pointed out to me by Eugenia Cheng (of The Catsters) and John Baez (of The n-Category Café) at a conference at Union College two years ago. Until that point I'd been calling cospans "-diagrams" because I'd invented them out of whole cloth to solve a problem that I'll eventually get around to explaining. The name seemed appropriate because I tend to draw them (as I have in the above diagrams) as wedges with the arrows on the sides pointing up into the center, sort of like a capital lambda. They've shown up in a number of contexts, but as far as I can tell I'm the first (and so far only) to use them in knot theory like I do. However, Jeff Morton has noted that cobordisms are a sort of cospan, and my use of tangles is analogous to that.
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I understand very well what you mean, George. There is the place that one has known that has a deep spot in one's heart/mind that is sometimes not where one has to live. It's not something that can be turned on like a light switch or just forced on one. I've lived in the East (coast of the US) for a bit over 30 years. But it's not "home", not the place that is my root like Montana is. Pennsylvania and Maryland are ok, but there's not the same deep feeling of "place" as it were.
So why continue to torture yourself over there on the east coast? Personally it took about 5 months before I just had to come back west, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania are nice enough places and I'm sure I'll be back to visit at some point, but certainly not places to live. Montana is an infinitely greater place, more open spaces, better people, more freedom...I could live in Montana, but not Maryland.
What? You've left Maryland? We never got a chance to meet in person. Well, rats. Where are you now, if one may ask?
In answer to your question, a lot of Montanans leave the state when they become adults because there aren't always lots of jobs available. Some leave, like a cousin in law to go for education that isn't available there; he just graduated from Medical School in, I think it was, West Virginia because there are no such schools in Montana. He's planning to go back since there's always a need for doctors and nurses. We have some good universities, but they may not cover everything. I left to get an education and eventually moved to Maryland for a job. I met and married a Marylander (who does like Montana, which is good) and had children here.
During the last election, my mother met Jon Tester running for the Senate. In conversation he asked her if she had children and if any of them lived in Montana. She told him that all three had left for employment. He agreed that things need to be done to have more jobs (such as tech since we *do* have computers in Montana ) come to the state.
To be fair, there are people who couldn't live in Montana, who prefer cities or coastal areas or things like that. To quote the old Irish proverb "If we all liked the same thing, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
P.S. And just to remind you, there are only 6-7 EO churchs or missions in the entire state and the one that I know for sure is Greek (in Great Falls) hasn't had a priest in years unfortunately. So if you do decide to move there, think of where you want to settle.
It's too bad we never had a chance to meet up...but I wasn't there for long. I'm back in California, in a relatively small town in the far north of the state. It's a nice place, great people...though I wish we didn't have the political influence of the cities. (We're working on that www.jeffersonstate.com/ )
Fortunately, I was able to get myself a job as a Materials Engineer and moved back...I design asphalt and they use that pretty much everywhere (even Montana...last I checked )
I almost went to the University of Montana in Missoula, but decided against it because they didn't have a well developed physics department and I was thinking of majoring in physics at the time, so I went to the University of Idaho (In the end, the only class I took that I probably couldn't have had I went to Montana was a class in General Relativity, but I quite enjoyed my time in Idaho). But I love Missoula and area to the North.
Well, some folk just arn't right in the head. I don't know that I'll ever have a chance to live in Montana (I do have some family there, but they live out in Lewiston...which isn't my favourite part of the state).
Sounds like a better situation than where I'm from. Of course, for better or for worse, religion isn't so significant part of my life at this point as to dictate where I move.
Elisha,I see that if MP was OCA then his speech could have been better. However, MP is Antiochian and his speech was not bad.....
Is it possible that you do not favour Arabic bishops ?
It is only the Arab language and culture that is foreign - and it isn't all that present in the Antiochian Archdiocese (you really have to go north, or to Canada, to find it all that 'Arab' - it sure isn't in most parts of the country.) I take my grandmother Lebanese food sometimes - she thinks it is German food! (I don't disabuse her of the notion.) The only other thing I'd say is foreign is the rite itself (Byzantine) and the church politics (very mafia-like, which should be familiar to anyone with Mediterranean connections.)
I don't know if he's a minority per se, but I know he hasn't been put off by his Christian brethren. I know for one that Metropolitan +MAXIMOS liked interacting with his fellow hierarchs (and is particularly close to +NICHOLAS of the Carpatho-Rus), but he was furious when Metro +PHILIP wanted to put yet another bishop in Pittsburgh (it was largely due to his protest that the Antiochian see was officially put in Oakland, then in WV). From his perspective (which I heard firsthand), it was hypocritical of +PHILIP (who talks about unity nonstop, and has a tendency of being accusatory towards his brethren) to speak of a need for greater unity while trying to exacerbate the problem of overlapping diocese.When some of the other bishops do things like this, it definitely sends the signal to bishops like mine that they're double-speaking (or power hungry).
Truth is - Arabs are often more culturally transparent to this Anglo-Celt (with good parts of Jewish and Native American), than are most Slavs or Greeks....It is only the Arab language and culture that is foreign - and it isn't all that present in the Antiochian Archdiocese (you really have to go north, or to Canada, to find it all that 'Arab' - it sure isn't in most parts of the country.)
Arabs, Russians, and other cultures are accustomed to hubris and other blustering within daily discourse. In the South, we expect it of politicians. We discourage it in decent folks. Integrity, in the South, is expected of church leaders. Having found the True Faith we're confused by contradictory words and actions which often emanate from the various jurisdictional hierarchs.When I first became Orthodox in the Antiochian jurisdiction, someone suggested that I read a book entitled "The Arab Mind" to get a sense of my newly adopted church culture. The book claimed that, in Arabic, the root word for eloquence and exaggeration is the same. An Arab may exaggerate to show machismo. For instance, a man may shout across a street corner to another "I hate you." The other man replies, "I not only hate you, I'm going to kill you!" The man retorts "I'm going to kill you and your family!" Etc. These same men may later be found sharing a friendly meal together. Words fail me in describing how this same dialogue might have ended in the South. Put it this way, funeral processions still stall traffic in these parts.Contrary to outsiders' perceptions, Southerners do not put on airs. Though we may be hospitable, friendly, and civil, what you see is what you get. If we share openly with you, it means we trust you. Once you break that trust, it may be irreparable. All are welcomed here. Yet, we are easily offended. If offended, the offending party will be cut off till reparation. Our people-pleasing nature lends itself to over-sensitivity. It just comes with the territory. In the South, admiration comes easy, respect is earned over time.Like all those outside Paradise, Southerners gossip. In a region where being idle is considered a virtue, idle talk ain't far behind! I don't mean the kind of vindictive gossip popularized by Soap Operas and other media. (Though we have that too.) Rather, Southerners carry on conversations in a way that others might view as gossiping. And, God help us, at times it is. Yet, often this is a manner of couching subjects within an engaging tale. It's the way we talk around here.Southerners are self-effacing. We can take criticism if it's properly couched in civility and/or humour. For us, if direct confrontation is necessary, things have already gone too far! Sometimes our neighbors to the North skip all the niceties and cut right to the chase. (Northern aggression continues.) And, since all the Orthodox jurisdictions hail from a different culture with the "home offices" up North, this element of cultural war persists within church dynamics. Brutal honesty is not only unwelcome but most often rejected in the South.Before attending my first gathering of Clergy and Church Wardens in the Russian Church, I was asked about the nature and agenda of the meeting. I said, "Well, they'll probably argue and yell at each other for a few hours and then we'll have lunch. After lunch, they'll argue and yell some more then we'll kiss each other goodbye and go home." I'm no prophet, but boy was I ever on the mark with that prediction! In such a setting you can recognize the Southerner -- he's the one with his mouth shut. If asked, were he honest, he'd say "I think you all are crazy." But, "don't ask, don't tell" has always been policy where I'm from. Being slightly dishonest in the name of civility is considered a virtue.You yell at a Southerner and it may have eternal consequences. When we speak, all that's required of you is to listen politely until it's your turn. We don't take kindly yelling, interruption, jeering, or public ridicule. We may not break bread with you until there's resolution. You don't have to agree, mind you. But, you must behave in such a way that assures civil discussion and debate. It may be that we take things personally. But, we operate on the assumption that you do to. Therefore, quite selfishly, the Golden Rule applies no matter what your rank or station.
I was on the parish council of the church I grew up in and I don't think I would characterize the politics in that parish as mafia-like. The word 'mafia' tends to denote physical violence as a way of doing business. Most of the Arabs I have known are peace loving. But they can be clannish and some are parochial. Sometimes they have trouble having a greater vision for the church.
Tamara,According to Wiki, you're not on the mark here - violence it only part of it. Your latter sentence above is closer to how the word is (maybe improperly) thrown around in common parlance."Some observers have seen "mafia" as a set of attributes deeply rooted in popular culture, as a "way of being", as illustrated in the definition by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitrè, at the end of the 19th century: "Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas."[3]"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
Aristibule, thank you for your elegant academic but completely meaningless diatribe to the point I've been trying to make.
Henner Hess, in Mafia & Mafiosi: Origin, Power and Myth. Trans. Ewald Osers.New York: NYUP, 1998, cites the same sources as Schiavo, and expands on his definitions. For him the word also has connotations of "boldness, ambition, arrogance" (1, Sciascia 1964). And, "A mafioso is simply a courageous, brave fellow who won't stand any nonsense from anyone" (1, Pitré 1889). He says that some believe that the word derives from the Arabic, "either from mahias, meaning a bold man or a braggart, or from Ma afir, the name of the Saracen tribe that ruled Palermo. A third theory of Arab origin relates mafia to maha, a quarry or a cave in a rock. The mafie, the tuff caves in the Marsala region, served the persecuted Saracens as hiding places and later provided hide-outs for other fugitives" (2, Lestingi 1884). Hess states that Giuseppe Loschiavo (not to be confused with Giovanni Schiavo) writes that before Garibaldi's landing, "the rebellious Sicilians had hidden out in the mafie near Marsala and had therefore subsequently, during their successful advance on Palermo, been called mafiosi, the people from the mafie" (2, Loschiavo 1964).
Elisha - Thanks for quoting Fr. Joseph Honeycutt. Since you missed the meaning, the meaning was that I think you're going a bit extreme on the 'WHITE' thing. It could be taken as racist - and that really has no place in Orthodoxy (the point being, again, there is no 'WHITE' Orthodox Church.) His article is right, of course, but you should note that Fr. Joseph Honeycutt is Byzantine rite in an Arab parish, with an Arab bishop. It isn't as if he is throwing stones - like myself, he is simply trying to create understanding. And, by the way - my response was not 'academic' - it is and was practical. Aristibule, thank you for your elegant academic but completely meaningless diatribe to the point I've been trying to make.
(And, Elisha didn't quote that whole article - it does relate on a tangent as to how Orthodoxy could and should handle the South.)
Well, it isn't just a hypothesis. If you look at it from collective experiences of converts: we see behavior that we've only ever seen in 'mafia movies' (or recognize from relatives' experience with discredited organizations), we have ethnic Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Serbian, Arab) telling us that they are mafia or can get help of the mafia, and that the bishops are/can as well, and clergy in those jurisdictions who often joke about mafia-like environment or actions. That's all besides the academic study of mafias (self-defense organisations for minorities), or even worse - events being investigated by various governments for mafia-like activity. A fair number of us have friends, family, and former coreligionists who have told us that they would *never* become Orthodox because of what they've seen with the scandals with the OCA, Greeks, Antiochians, Russians, etc. (And, Elisha didn't quote that whole article - it does relate on a tangent as to how Orthodoxy could and should handle the South.) Having one or two folk protesting that there is 'nothing mafia' is meaningless then - we're thinking (though not always saying it): "go tell it to your cousin over at X parish, he's bragging about mafia." Part of this is about what many of us don't think ethnic Orthodox ever realize: that we converts also have the importance of family, friendship, and except for those who take Orthodoxy as a cult - aren't going to just give up on all the relationships we've had. Part of that as well is the convert's hope - that he'll see his family and friends converted (even, god willing, his home church, diocese/district, or denomination!) As such, dysfunctional behavior, or even just behavior outside of the context of our culture, can often become a serious stumbling block. It's hard to talk your drowning parents out of the water when it looks like some of the people in the boat are ready to eat them ... they'll take their chances treading water, in that case (and many of us have been told just as much.) Not that we don't have the same things in our own culture - the South had its mafia as well, just much reduced as action was taken against it by everything from the Federal government, to local churches, til most of them don't have that much influence as they used to (hint - it had something to do with white robes.)
No financial scandals among the Greeks? Most likely because for something to be scandalous, it must be made known.
The NYPD said the Russian Mafia make the Italian Mafia look genteel. The Italian Mafia might kill one informant but the Russian Mafia would kill the informant and his entire family.
Someone at the highest level in the GOA constantly leaks information to the National Herald after synod meetings.
Why do you seperate "Americans" as though they are a different ethnicity? Aren't Greek citizens of the USA "Americans"? Aren't Arab citizens of the USA "Americans"? Aren't Chinese citizens of the USA "Americans"?
What about African citizens of the USA? Are we Amercan?The truth is no.There is a seperation when it comes to us (it always has been). I guess that why you did not use Africans in your scenario.I am an Ethiopian (Ethiopians are black people; African) and at the same time African Americans and their whole history is mine also. To educated Africans on the continent we all feel that all our history is one history. Unlike for example Irish history vs Greek history. WE are all simply Africans.
African people in America did not get their citizenship until about 50 years ago; although we have been there since before the begining of America...These acts are for Africans living in America. The constitution and the bill of rights stand alone DOES NOT EVEN NOW PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF AFRICANS IN AMERICA. The constitution and the bill of rights are for white people. Even a person (white) who migrates to the USA and becomes an American after a few years has more TRUE constitutional protection than an African who has been here from day 1.
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It makes me wonder what Method is used to leak information to the National Herald. Perhaps more than one method is used to spread their alternate gospel (Evangelismos in the Greek, of course)
Who do you wnat to listen to the wannabees or us. It is still more of us then them.
Elisha - I did indeed read you, and read you well: what it really comes down to is that you assume the OCA is more 'white' or a better fit for Americans. As a 'White' American, I do not find that to be true - at the most, I'd call the 'Americaness' of the OCA at best a parody - at the least, hostile. Fare thee well.
...St. Antony's in Tulsa, OK - where I believe Elisha has also been?
It does mean a way of doing things that is a minority self-defense mechanism, with many shared characteristics across Mediterranean cultures (una faza, una raza), and that it causes plenty of cross-cultural stress (which, I believe, is what Elisha was trying to say with Fr. Joseph Honeycutt's article - which is true, as I fit the bill with his description.) BTW - you said 'mafioso Arabs', I never did.
As for scandals - the affair surrounding the former Bishop of the Midwest was also a scandal. If you aren't aware of it, however, I see no reason to make you aware of it - only that there are scandals more than you know.
Elisha,Is Jesus White or Black?
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