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In February, Baruch College celebrated Black History Month with events sponsored by a wide range of academic departments, student organizations, and administrative offices. Here, a Baruch student reads during Poetry Night, kicking off the month with poets from around the city.
Photo: Rob Benimoff ('06) |
Teams from Baruch College, Hunter College, and City College walked throughout the night, from Mar. 31 to Apr. 1, in the 15-hour Relay for Life as part of a nationwide celebration of hope and remembrance honoring cancer survivors and paying tribute to lives lost. The over 660 CUNY students raised more than $77,000 for the American Cancer Society.
Photo: Carl Wolf Studio |
Award-winning Spring 2006 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Carol Muske-Dukes gave a reading in March from her forthcoming novel, Channeling Mark Twain, and her most recent book of poems, Sparrow, a collection of elegies dedicated to her late husband, the actor David Dukes. The event was held at the Engelman Recital Hall and was co-sponsored by Poets & Writers magazine.
Photo: Rob Benimoff ('06) |
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We Are the Champions: The top-seeded Baruch Bearcats captured their first CUNYAC Men’s Volleyball Championship since 1990, sweeping the second-seeded Hunter Hawks at Hunter on Mar. 23. The Bearcats finished the regular season with a perfect 14-0 conference mark. With this win, men’s volleyball joined women’s basketball, men’s basketball, women’s volleyball, and women’s tennis, all teams that played in their respective conference tournament championship games in 2005–2006. These victories catapulted the Bearcats into first place in the Commissioner’s Cup Points Standings for the first time.
Photo: Jerry Speier
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In February the New York Times ran this photo of XM Satellite Radio president and CEO Hugh Panero (EMBA ’89) and Oprah Winfrey, taken at the announcement of XM’s new “Oprah & Friends” channel. To publicize their three-year, $55-million deal, the partners scheduled a press conference via phone, during which they fielded questions from reporters.
Photo: George Burns/©2006 Harpo Productions, Inc. |
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Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) outlined his vision for Harlem’s future as part of the February conference “Harlem in Our Eyes,” sponsored by Baruch College’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute. The conference explored the rapidly changing social and material landscape of Harlem and featured such notable guests as Dr. Calvin O. Butts, former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, and cultural historian Allen Schoener. Rangel also delivered the keynote address at Baruch’s 2006 Commencement ceremony.
Photo: Elena Olivo |
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Chinatown was one of four off-campus sites where Baruch’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program was in high gear during the tax season. On April 15 and 16, NY1 News aired a segment on the help our students were providing to Chinatown residents. Pictured here are Baruch students hard at work preparing tax forms in the Chinese Community Center on Mott Street.
Photo: Jerry Speier
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As part of Baruch’s Spring 2006 Russian Festival, the Mishkin Gallery presented Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art: Russia Redux 2, an exhibition of photography and video art that deals with the politics of public and private spaces in the post-Soviet world. The show surveyed the work of over a dozen contemporary artists and collaborative art groups. Curator Elena Sorokina (far right) traveled to New York City with artists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Central Asia for the exhibition. Funding for the travel was provided by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Photo: Robin Graubard |
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Star-Studded and Still Swingin’: The Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert Series, named for the renowned jazz bassist and Baruch faculty member, celebrated its 14th year of bringing free jazz performances to the Baruch community. The Andy Middleton Octet wrapped up the 2005–2006 season, which also featured the Turtle Island String Quartet, winners of the 2006 Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album, 4 + Four. Pictured: Andy Middleton.
Photo: Jerry Speier
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Baruch College benefactors Michael Roth (’67) (left) and Max Berger (’68) (right) were honored with the dedication of two state-of-the-art Newman Vertical Campus classrooms in their names. President Kathleen Waldron (pictured with Berger) hosted the informal celebration recognizing the generosity and commitment of Roth, chairman and CEO of the MONY Group, and Berger, partner in Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman.
Photos: Jerry Speier |
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