The fourth and final production of the Robsham Theater’s fall season is William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night or What You Will. Fourteen undergraduates comprise the show’s cast, and the production makes no attempt to mimic Elizabethan dress or staging. The set consists of a long swag of patched parachute cloth, and the costumes are “a colorful hodge-podge of styles inspired in part by the Japanese youth fashion trend of harajuku and Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes,” says director Scott T. Cummings, associate professor of theater. Given the musical underpinnings of the play, which begins with the line, “If music be the food of love, play on,” Cummings asked Boston composer Chris Renna to create a score, which he performs live on electric guitar. In this scene from the November 17 dress rehearsal are from left, Sir Toby Belch (Steven Conroy ’10), Maria (Maggie McNeil ’11), Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Shaun Slusarski ’12), and Fabian (Libby McKnight ’11), as they contemplate their next comic scheme.

A replica of a section of the Berlin Wall—sponsored by the German embassy, designed and built by faculty and students—marked the 20th anniversary of the Wall’s demise and became a canvas for student reflections.

@BC presents a slideshow of photographs taken at the dedication. To view videos of the ceremony or to visit the University’s website containing a database of the honored veterans and other information about alumni participation in military conflicts, click on the related links on the right-hand side of this page.

The Northern Ireland photographer and journalist Bobbie Hanvey visited Boston College on November 5 for the opening of an exhibit of his work at the O’Neill Library and to mark the online launch of the Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives. To date, some 3,800 of the images acquired from Hanvey by the University have been digitized; when completed, the online collection will exceed 50,000. Hanvey captured the events and faces of Northern Ireland starting in the early 1970s. He photographed musicians and writers, the indigent Travellers, politicians, soldiers, and paramilitaries, as well as scenes of arson, bombings, and ordinary life.

Above, in the Burns Library’s Francis Thompson Room are Hanvey (center) with Ph.D. students and collection cataloguers Katherine Kellett (left) and Annemarie Anderson and Burns head archivist David Horn.

To learn more about the University’s Bobbie Hanvey collection and to see images, click here.

A panel of journalists, including the editors of Boston College’s independent student print newspapers, the Heights and the Observer, and the student programming director of WZBC, discussed the rights, responsibilities, and power of campus media, November 5 in Devlin 008. The conversation focused on what all agreed were the most likely sources of controversy—editorials and opinion pieces—and the unusual challenges of putting out a campus paper. Michael Reer ’10, editor-in-chief of the Observer, commented that he saw the mission of his paper as being to “share the good news, investigate when things aren’t going well,” and offer opinion pieces that “make you rethink an opinion you already have.” But in the relatively small, tight-knit community of a campus, he said, opinion pieces have disproportionate influence, and editors should be mindful. The panelists agreed that regular turnover of both readership and staffs—with publications losing their most seasoned editors and writers at Commencement each spring—points to the need for continual conversation about standards and coverage. Ryan McDaid ’10, WZBC program director, offered Boston College’s AM station WVBC, with its regular talks shows, as a venue. Above (from left) are Thomas Mulvoy ’64, former managing editor of the Boston Globe (and Heights alumnus); Jamel Bell, assistant professor of communication; Jon Marcus, former editor of Boston magazine and adjunct member of the communication department; Alexi Chi ’10, editor-in-chief of the Heights; and McDaid.

Some 250 juniors and seniors came to the Heights Room in Corcoran Commons on October 27 for the annual Post-Graduate Volunteer Fair, a chance to talk with representatives of 50 nonprofit organizations about volunteer opportunities after graduation. The event was sponsored jointly by the University’s Career Center and the Volunteer and Service Learning Center. Presenters ranged from providers of emergency aid for war victims to wilderness-based support programs for troubled teens, and from the Augustinian Volunteers to WorldTeach. According to Kate Daly, assistant director of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, the goal of the fair is to help students find their “best fit.” Currently, 35 members of the Class of 2009 serve with Teach for America, and Boston College ranks seventh among universities of its size in graduates entering the Peace Corp. Above, from left, are Phil Schneider, business manager of the Nativity School of Worcester, Massachusetts (a tuition-free Jesuit middle school for inner-city boys), William Hood ’11, Kristen Kehlenbeck ’11, Courtney Allessio ’11, and Sean Dillon, Nativity’s acting principal.

Becker went on to manage the Leslie’s art department from 1875 to 1900. He saved some 650 original sketches by artists sent in from the field on subjects as diverse as America at the time. The exhibition First Hand: Civil War–era Drawings from the Becker Collection continues through December 13, 2009, at the University’s McMullen Museum. Read more about Civil War–era sketch artists in Boston College Magazine’s Summer 2009 issue.
 

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