October 2010

The Writing Center has launched a new program on writing workshops in Chester at the College Access Center, which provides a variety of free services for preparing students for college. In this new project, three Writing Associates conduct weekly workshops with a

Dare 2 Soar, which provides tutoring and mentoring to Chester youth, has discontinued their Columbus Elementary School site, while trying to launch a new site at Chester High School.

On Monday, George Akerlof delivered a lecture in Sci 101 on new methods of economic thinking. He argued that the current economic crisis has shown economics needs to rethink its basic assumptions.

“Would Walter Cronkite Have Tweeted?” Cindi Leive, ’88, editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine asked family, friends and alumni at Garnet Weekend. Leive gave this year’s Thomas B. McCabe Lecture on “Old Media, New Media and What You Should Know about Everything You Read.”

Student Council met to discuss the planning of future events and policies.