the year in review
2008
annual Shakespeare Festival, featuring Hamlet, at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse. Hamlet, guest directed by Gus Kaikkonen, was performed on Hofstra’s famous reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe stage. As part of the Shakespeare Festival, Adjunct Professor of English Maureen Connolly McFeely developed This Bud of Love: A One-Hour Romeo and Juliet as the companion play, and the Music Department’s Collegium Musicum performed That Is The Question, directed by William Hettrick.
Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on March 26.
March 4: Students gathered at the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center to promote voter registration and student participation in the presidential election process. In the evening, there was a gathering of students and faculty at Hofstra University Honors College to watch the presidential primary returns. March 5 and 6: Recent scientific developments in the field of human embryonic stem cell research and cloning have prompted a host of difficult questions that challenge lawmakers, scientists, ethicists, theologians, and ordinary citizens. Some of the nation’s leading researchers, physicians, lawyers, clergy, ethicists and policy makers debated these questions at a conference titled Embryonic Stem Cells, Clones and Genes: Science, Law, Politics and Values, presented by Hofstra Law School and the Hofstra Cultural Center.
March 6: Hofstra Law School presented the 19th Annual Public Justice Foundation Gala Goods and Services Auction. The event funds Public Interest Law Fellowships, which are awarded to students who devote their summer to working in an area of public interest law. The auction was an overwhelming success, raising record-breaking funds of more than $35,000.
March 6 to 16: The Department of Drama and Dance presented the 59th
March 6: Hofstra’s Schools for Schools Chapter held a “Tango for Atanga Dance-A-Thon” at Hofstra USA. The goal was to raise $1,000 for the Atanga Secondary School, located in the war-torn and poverty-stricken region of Northern Uganda. Hofstra’s Schools for Schools Chapter raised money for textbooks, school renovations and teachers’ salaries at the Atanga Secondary School.
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March 7: The Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal sponsored Emerging Technology and Employee Privacy. Focusing on the effects of emerging technologies such as the BlackBerry, RFIDS, GPS, and other tracking technologies in the employment arena, the symposium examined proposed solutions to privacy concerns, addressed the prevalent problem of data theft, and explored legal issues in this emerging area of the law. March 10 and 12: The Women’s Studies Program and the Center for Civic Engagement presented Women Respond to War! featuring award-winning actress Ellen McLaughlin. On March 10 Ms. McLaughlin performed Penelope, a
Hofstra Law School hosted Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., for a program on judicial clerkships. (L to r) Law School Dean Nora Demleitner, Justice Alito, and Professor of Law Norman I. Silber.