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DON'T MISS
Jill Lepore discusses her
latest book at Food for Thought on February 19,
at noon, at Marsh Chapel’s Robinson Room
Week of 15 February 2002 · Vol. V, No. 23
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Visiting profs' vision: BU as analytic journalism hub

By David J. Craig
As municipal budgets, standardized public school test results, crime stats, and other public documents increasingly become available on the Internet, journalists have ready access to more information than ever before.

Redstone Festival accepts video, draws cutting-edge student films

By David J. Craig
In creating the 24-minute political satire Legalized America, filmmaker Michael Ball used cutting-edge digital editing techniques to create a colorful and wildly sarcastic collage, featuring several minutes of computer animation and numerous psychedelic sequences that simulate television commercials and visual culture from different eras.

Connections
Edward Gourdin: Olympic silver medalist, but a man of firsts

By Amy Dean
He was the 1916 class valedictorian at Stanton High School in Jacksonville, Fla. In 1921, he became the first man in history to make 25 feet in the long jump, and he later won the silver medal in the event, at the 1924 Olympics. He was a track star at Harvard, where he earned a law degree in 1924


ARTS
New music education chair wants everyone to play By Hope Green

SPORTS
Huskies humbled
Torrid Terrier triumph brings Beanpot back

By Brian Fitzgerald
It was the best of games for the Terriers as they jumped to a 2-0 lead in the Beanpot championship game against Northeastern February 11. It was also the worst of games for Boston University in the latter half of the second period, when it surrendered three unanswered goals, trailing the Huskies, 3-2, going into the final stanza


Golden lighters

Inner Strength takes songs to the South

Boston University’s Inner Strength Gospel Choir is going south to Memphis for its annual spring tour, from February 14 through 17. With an extensive four-day calendar of events in the city known as the birthplace of contemporary gospel music, the choir hopes to spread its ministry through gospel music at community outreach events, seminars, symposiums, concerts, and local churches.

Inner Strength, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary next year, is one of the largest student organizations on campus — and one of the busiest. Members rehearse every Sunday at Marsh Chapel and perform each month at local churches. Although the choir sometimes sings traditional Christian hymns, most of the songs are written by David Coleman (CFA’93), a native of Memphis and Inner Strength’s director for the past nine years.

For more information about the tour, call 617-735-6356.
       

15 February 2002
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