Discimus ut serviamus: We learn so that we may serve.
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QView #143 | November 29, 2022 | |
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Happy Giving Tuesday! By donating to the Knights Table Food Pantry today—November 29—you can support Queens College’s efforts to reduce food insecurity. In 2021, thousands of dollars were raised to help support pantry initiatives, such as the mobile food pantry and distribution of grocery store gift cards. Programs like these helped over 4000 students and family members gain easier access to food. The Knights Table Food Pantry needs our continued support.
You can make a difference by keeping one student from going hungry this holiday season. Make your donation today at queens.cunytuesday.org!
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Finding Conversation in the Gallery
Tonight—November 29—at 6 pm, President Frank H. Wu will discuss the current Godwin Ternbach exhibition, Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America, with Herb Tam, curator and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America and guest curator for Understatements. The conversation will take place at the museum in Klapper Hall. To attend this free event, email gtmuseum@qc.cuny.edu.
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CUNY EVC Coming to QC
As part of a first-ever listening tour encompassing all 25 City University of New York campuses, Wendy Hensel, executive vice chancellor and university provost of CUNY, will spend the day at Queens College on December 5. Her visit will include a one-hour town hall at LeFrak Concert Hall at 12:15 pm; to attend, register in advance.
Hensel has been serving in her current title since June 2022. A prominent legal scholar expert in disability law, policy, and ethics, she came to CUNY after a decade of academic leadership experience at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
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Registration Open for 2023
Winter—and Winter session—is around the corner. It’s not too soon to choose courses. Registration is available to students in CUNYfirst; look in the Student Service Center under "Enrollment Dates." For schedule details, please see the mailer sent earlier this semester by QC Hub Director James Curry.
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Big Efforts by Diamond and Lapertosa Lead Men’s and Women’s Basketball to Wins Over Alliance University
Sunnie Diamond registered a triple-double (18 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists) to lead the men’s basketball team to an 88-73 win over Alliance University on Wednesday, while on Saturday Cecilia Lapertosa recorded a double-double (17 points, 10 rebounds) as the Knights’ women’s basketball team also topped Alliance, 68-54.
| Through six games the men’s basketball team is 3-3, while the women’s team is 2-4. This week, both teams begin East Coast Conference (ECC) play when they travel to Buffalo on Friday to take on D’Youville University. The women tip off at 6 pm and the men follow at 8 pm. On Sunday, the women and men’s teams will head to Amherst, New York, for a road contest at Daemen University at 12 and 2 pm respectively. | |
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Design Students Bring Voicemails to Life with New Animation Project
Students from Queens College’s Design program recently launched a unique animation project in which anyone from the QC community can participate.
Throughout the semester, students from the Design Special Topics class, taught by Dustin Grella, are animating anonymous voicemails that QC community members leave from a 1940s-style phone booth. The phone booth is currently set up in Klapper Hall, but will be moved around campus during the course of the project. Participants can climb inside, close the door behind them, pick up the phone, and leave a message about anything that is on their mind. Inside the booth, participants can view previously animated messages on a TV screen.
“This class was set up so these students could take an idea from beginning to end and execute a full project,” said Grella. “They had the opportunity to set it up, did the branding, collected the messages, created the animation, and posted them online.”
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Talking Heads
The project is called Tête-à-Tête, which is a French expression meaning “intimate conversation” (literally, head to head). The students chose this name because they hope the project will create more dialogue on campus.
“As different people from the school share their stories, the goal is to form some connection amongst everybody,” noted QC student Sophia Nath, whose main responsibility is editing the audio of each clip. “It can make student body, faculty, and everybody closer and more understanding of each other.”
“I think it’s really nice that Tête-à-Tête is something that is able to bring people together and share stories,” added animator Elizabeth Lucas. “Having a bunch of different stories to animate each week is really nice.”
Animations completed so far include a message about QC’s picturesque view of the New York City skyline and another offering some advice on happiness. The students are finding the project beneficial in many ways.
“I’ve been enjoying it a lot,” said Sara Restrepo, who works on animations. “I’ve never really had a structure for a lot of animations before. It’s teaching me how to schedule and process everything in the amount of time I have. I also really like hearing people’s stories. Sometimes it will be really funny and others are a lot more serious.”
Videos are posted weekly on the Design program’s YouTube page as well as the School of Arts Instagram account. Individuals who aren’t able to visit the phone booth on campus but want to participate can leave a voicemail from anywhere by calling 718-925-4745.
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Tips for a Safer, Happier Holiday
During the holiday season, the Office Public Safety reminds members of the QC community to be alert and aware of their surroundings at all times.
Anyone working on campus late in the evening or over the weekend should notify Public Safety upon arrival and departure from college grounds. If you are alone in an office or building, keep office doors locked. Before you leave, secure equipment and lock windows and doors.
Exercise caution when parking or entering your car. Lock valuables in the trunk.
Report all suspicious activity immediately to Public Safety at 718-997-5911/5912.
For more information about keeping safe this season, see the recent mailer from the Office of Public Safety.
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Language Matters
Interim School of Education Dean Bobbie Kabuto will discuss teaching for linguistic equity at the next At Home with Queens presentation, on December 8, at 4 pm. Kabuto will explore how to center linguistic equity when teaching bilingual readers, allowing them to use their language resources while reading and retelling texts.
To attend the Zoom meeting, register here.
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Distinguished Professor of English Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten collections of poetry; The Unbearable Heart received an American Book Award. Hahn served a term as president of the Poetry Society of America. | |
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Peter Carroll ’64 just published a new collection, This Land These People: The 50* States (Plus Washington, D.C.), with one poem for each state . . . . Harvey Silver ’73 is having a solo photographic exhibit, Changin’ Times, at EV Gallery through January 14, 2023 . . . . Chaim Wachsberger ’73, a retired partner at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, has been named vice chair of the Queens College Foundation. At Norton Rose Fulbright, Wachsberger represented sponsors, equity investors, and financing sources in connection with energy, transportation and other industrial and infrastructure projects in the United States and abroad . . . . The KITH collaboration with QC and Brooklyn College was the subject of an “Arts in the City” segment on CUNY TV. KITH, an apparel company, released a limited edition, college-branded collection earlier this year. | |
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