![]() for work in Nepal story of injustice keynotes Hellingers keynote, `A Catholic Case for Reparation' Speaker for Francis Week at the university. Cressler's talk was "A Catholic Case for Repara- tion." lege of Charleston in South Carolina, Cressler combined autobiography and history to show the Catholic Church's case for reparation in his talk. Francis of Assisi was told to "Go and repair (God's) home which, as you see, is all being de- stroyed." repair a nation broken by racial injustice? A video of the presentation is posted on his blog, www.matthewjcressler.com. Ideal Bonaventure Man award, and was in- volved with Students for the Mountain. lege classes, presented at a Thursday Fac- ulty/Staff Forum, and spoke at Mt. Irenaeus. Maggie Doyne in recognition of the work she is doing in Nepal. ing for Nepalese refugees at an or- phanage in India when she went to Nepal to help a girl find her family. country, Doyne phoned home, asked her parents for her babysitting money, bought a piece of land, and founded the Kopila Valley Children's Home. She never returned to the U.S. to attend college. Center, providing literacy and voca- tional skills training to the women of Surkhet. campus using innovative, sustainable technology. named CNN's Hero of the Year on Nov. 17. She won $100,000. she exemplifies the kind of generos- ity and moral imagination we wish our students to possess when they graduate," said Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president. season. proverbial baton. The new wolf -- named Reilly through a social media voting campaign -- has big shoes to fill but says he is up to the task. keynote speaker Nov. 5 for the journal- ism school's annual Mark Hellinger Awards ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Matthew Tack, '15, Mark Hellinger Award runner-up; Joseph Pinter, '15, Buffalo News Entrepreneurial Reporting Award; and William Holzerland, Esq., '02, Journalism and Mass Communica- tion Alumnus of the Year. tor and senior vice president at American Journalism Review. N 2 1 only crowd in Dresser Auditorium in Oc- tober as he shared his story of racism, injustice and redemption. Joining Hinton for the program was senior attorney Charlotte Morrison with the Equal Justice Initiative, which has won reversal, relief or release for 115 wrongly condemned pris- oners on death row. issue of mass incarceration. The pro- gram was among more than two dozen lectures, movies and discussions on campus this fall designed to spur posi- tive communication about issues of race and ethnicity. Learn more at |