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In his book The Shame of the Nation, he exposes glaring inequities between schools catering to minorities in dense cities, and predominantly white schools in suburbia.

Garber has authored four books devoted to the Bard; the most recent, Shakespeare After All, makes him more accessible to the common reader.

“Like all Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado deals with love and marriage,” says director Henry I. Schvey “But it’s also about misunderstanding, misinterpretation and disguise.”

The 70-plus-member orchestra will perform music of Ernest Bloch, Peter I. Tchaikovsky and Gay Holmes Spears at 3 p.m. Feb. 19 in Graham Chapel.

Photo by Kevin LowderThe Hip Jazz Quartet performs as part of the Jazz at Holmes series; the group includes Peter Martin, who was in the recent film Good Night, and Good Luck.

Men’s hoops scores 100 in back-to-back wins The men’s basketball team (15-7, 7-4 UAA) won two key league home games to move into a second-place tie in the University Athletic Association standings. The Bears defeated Case Western Reserve University, 111-74, on Feb. 10 at the Field House. Sophomore Danny O’Boyle finished with a career-high 22 […]

Randy Korotev regularly receives samples from meteorite enthusiasts that are not the real thing; mistakenly identified meteorites are dubbed “meteorwrongs.”

She’s the author of three collections of poetry: Fire in the Conservatory (1982); The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996); and Waterborne (2002).

The research associate and lecturer in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences edited The Rock-Art of Eastern North America: Capturing Images and Insight.

“We wanted to create artwork that drew people to portraits for their distinctiveness as faculty, as human beings and as researchers,” says the school’s Deborah Booker.