hen CA brought professor, poet, and activist Kip Fulbeck to campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Day last year, the campus multicultural group known as MOSAIC was paying close attention. Fulbeck introduced the school to his Hapa Project: portraits of people and their answers to the question, “What are you?” It inspired MOSAIC members to create the Capa Project — Hapa with a CA. Dozens of students participated, and for weeks afterward their photos and comments lined the vestibule outside the dining hall. Beneath faces a few words were scrawled.
“What are you?” I am . . . “light-skinned from Spanish Harlem” “a paradox: Catholicism and liberalism don’t mix well.” “a writer, lover, fighter” “a square peg when everything’s a round hole” “different things to different people” “proud to be an American . . . and whatever else may run through these veins” “undefinable” Answers were deep, silly, whimsical, and revealing. The Capa Project may not have defined the undefinable, but it provided a glimpse into the diversity of identities and feelings at CA.
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oncord Academy held its fifth Model United Nations conference (CAMUN) in April, led by Secretary General Jenna Troop ’09. About seventy delegates from nine schools attended, grappling with topics including turmoil in the Northwest province of Pakistan, North Korea’s nuclear threat, indigenous peoples’ land rights, and human organ trafficking. Opening ceremonies included a keynote address by Jean-Claude Berthelot, a former UN employee for the peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
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