Homecoming Day 2014
2014-10-11
Join Us for a Red, White and MU
Homecoming!
Schedule of Events
9:30 a.m. • Parking Lot Open for Tailgating • $5 Parking Fee
10 a.m. • Alumni House Tailgate Tent & Lawn PartyFAMILY FRIENDLY!Bounce castle, games, and more!
ALUMNI HOUSE IS LOCATED BEHIND THE MAC & LOT 25
10 a.m. – Pollak Theater OpensOn display is the Barry Schneier limited edition Bruce Springsteen print up for auction
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. – SGA Alumni Reunion in the Commuter Lot
10:30 a.m. – Super Alumni Sale • Monmouth University Bookstore • MACDiscounts on University imprinted merchandise in stock range from 10% for the more recent graduates to 60% for the earliest graduates!Register in the Alumni Tailgate Tent to receive the alumni discount card (good only for the day).
10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. – Annual WMCX 88.9 & Hawk-TV Tailgate ExtravaganzaFood, refreshments, giveaways & more!Tune in to the live pre-game simulcast with Hawk-TV and the game at 1 p.m.Brockriede Commons – Rain location: Anacon Hall
11:00am – 1:00pm – MBA Homecoming Barbecue
Join us as we celebrate the 2014-2015 academic year with MBA alumni food, fun and Hawk football!!
Bey Hall, Leon Hess Business School

Adult guests and children complimentary.
RSVP by October 6, 2014 – (732) 571-3434 – Email: nkelly@monmouth.edu

Football tickets upon request.
Jointly Sponsored By:

Leon Hess Business School – LHBS Business Council – MBA Program
1 p.m. • GO HAWKS! • Monmouth vs. Columbia • Kessler FieldTickets are $10 for adults and $6 for students (5-23) and seniors (65+). Children under 5 are free.Tickets can be purchased at the MAC Box Office, or order ahead by calling 732-263-6889.
HALFTIME • SPECIAL PROGRAM • Kessler FieldPresentation of the Alumni Service AwardCrowning of Homecoming King and Queen
7 p.m. Men’s Soccer vs. Fairfield • Hesse Field at The Great Lawn

Met Opera: MACBETH
2014-10-11 13:00 - 16:15 (America/New_York) | Pollak Theatre
PLEASE NOTE: This is also the same day as HOMECOMING. Please arrive early to secure parking.
Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Željko Lučić’s doomed Macbeth, for the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble’s chilling production of Verdi’s masterful adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy also stars Joseph Calleja as the noble Macduff and René Pape as Banquo. Fabio Luisi conducts.
Encore Sat. October 25, 2014, 1:00 p.m.
Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 13 minutes

The Lightning Thief
2014-10-17 10:00 - 11:15 | Pollak Theatre
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy has ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. Based on the popular book series by Rick Riordan.
(Approximately one hour in length. Recommended for grades 2-6.)
Curriculum Connections: Communication and Language Arts, Literature-Based, Music, Relationships and Family, Social Studies

Met Opera: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
2014-10-18 13:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
New Production
Met Music Director James Levine conducts a spirited new production of Mozart’s masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who sets the action of this classic domestic comedy in a 19th-century manor house in Seville, but during the gilded age of the late 1920s. Dashing bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast in the title role of the clever servant, opposite Marlis Petersen as his bride, Susanna, Peter Mattei as the philandering Count they work for, Amanda Majeski as the long-suffering Countess, and Isabel Leonard as the libidinous pageboy Cherubino.
Encore: Sun. November 9, 2014, 1:00 p.m.
Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 52 minutes

Andy Grammer
2014-10-23 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Platinum-selling recording artist Andy Grammer became the first male pop star in a decade, since John Mayer in 2002, to reach the Top 10 at Adult Pop Radio on his first two singles, Keep Your Head Up and Fine By Me. In just a few short years, Grammer has gone on to sell over 100,000 albums, play sold out venues nationwide, perform onstage with Taylor Swift, Train, and Colbie Caillat. While hard at work on his highly anticipated sophomore album Magazines or Novels, Grammer released Back Home, a joyously anthemic track that illustrates his knack for writing infectious, relatable songs remains strong, as does his soaring voice. On the new album, Grammer reinforces his place among elite male pop artists through honest reflections of the impressive ride he’s been on during the past couple of years. The son of a Grammy-nominated children’s performer Red Grammer, he often joined his dad on-stage to sing, promoting his fierce ambition to succeed. His father instilled his work ethic and taught him to respect his audience. “I saw what it took to cultivate an artistic career,” Grammer says. “My favorite thing is writing from a bird’s-eye view, whether it’s a break-up or a good relationship. I like to be far enough away to see the whole scope of what’s occurring.”
Opening for Grammer is Canadian band Zerbin who has shared the stage with The Flaming Lips, FUN., Said The Whale and AWOLNATION, cementing their status as a band to watch.

5th Annual School of Science Dean's Seminar
2014-10-24 16:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
The 2014 speaker will be Ann Reid, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Ann graduated from Simon’s Rock Early College with a B.A. in Environmental Science and received a M.A. in Advanced International Studies from Johns Hopkins University. Ann became the executive director of NCSE in 2014. For fifteen years she worked as a research biologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, where she was responsible for sequencing the 1918 influenza virus. She then served as a Senior Program Officer at the National Research Council’s Board on Life Sciences for five years and then, most recently, as director of the American Academy of Microbiology. In both roles she oversaw major efforts aimed at communicating science to the public.
The NCSE is a not-for-profit membership organization that defends the teaching of evolution and climate science in the public schools. The NCSE provides information, resources, and advice to schools, teachers, parents, and concerned citizens defending science education. The NCSE educates the press and public about the scientific, educational, and legal aspects of these issues at local, state, and national levels. Its 5000 members are scientists, teachers, clergy, and citizens with diverse religious and
political affiliations.
The seminar is free and open to the public but seating is limited. If you plan to attend, please register for the seminar here.
Seminar details will be updated on the website and, as available, further information about the event will be circulated to registrants via e-mail.

The 15th Annual Big Event
2014-10-25
The Big Event is the single largest community service project that takes place at Monmouth University every year. Every fall, approximately 400 members of the Monmouth University community sign up to be a volunteer at one of the 25 to 30 Big Event work sites in the towns that surround campus. Learn more about The Big Event, here.
Would you like to become a BIG EVENT volunteer?
THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT A BIG EVENT VOLUNTEER APPLICATION IS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014.

Met Opera: MACBETH Encore
2014-10-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Pollak Theatre
Star
soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of
Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Željko Lučić’s doomed Macbeth, for
the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble’s chilling production of Verdi’s
masterful adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy also stars Joseph Calleja as the
noble Macduff and René Pape as Banquo. Fabio Luisi conducts.

On Screen in Person: Fly by Light
2014-10-27 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Director Ellie Walton
A group of teenagers leaves the streets of Washington, DC, to participate in an ambitious anti-violence education program in rural West Virginia where they confront the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of their past. Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of the chaotic, confusing, and emotional journey that follows as they attempt to rewrite their futures.
On Screen/In Person is pleased to present advanced screenings of the film in the mid-Atlantic region prior to its world premiere.
There will be a Q&A with director Ellie Walton following the screening.
Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program.

Future of the Ocean Symposium
2014-10-30 10:00 - 12:00 | The Great Hall
SCHEDULE
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. – Symposium
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. – Awards Luncheon

Future of the Ocean Symposium
9:30 a.m. – Symposium Registration
10:00 a.m. Welcome from Monmouth University President Paul Brown, Ph.D.
Distinguished Speakers: Dr. Kathy Sullivan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Mrs. Wendy Schmidt, president of The Schmidt Family Foundation and co-founder of the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI).

National Theatre of London: Skylight
2014-10-30 19:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Gatsby) feature in the highly anticipated production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience), broadcast live from the West End by National Theatre Live.
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.
As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.

Family Weekend 2014
2014-10-31 - 2014-11-02
This is a great time to visit your student and to connect with the vibrant and active Monmouth University community.
You will enjoy a host of entertaining events and activities including an interactive Murder Mystery Dinner on Friday; cheering on our Division I football team as they face off against Charleston Southern on Saturday; and top-level arts programming by the Metropolitan Opera. We are presenting Live in HD Bizet’s Carmen on Saturday, and the Bolshoi Ballet Live in HD on Sunday.

Between scheduled family events you can take in an art exhibition at the Ice House Gallery or Rechnitz Hall; tour beautiful Wilson Hall, a National Historic Landmark, and the Monmouth University Library; or take a stroll along the ocean on the nearby Long Branch boardwalk.

Graduation Applications Deadline (for January Graduation)
2014-11-01

Met Opera: CARMEN (Broadcast in HD)
2014-11-01 13:00 - 16:45 | Pollak Theatre
Richard Eyre’s mesmerizing production of Bizet’s steamy melodrama returns with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili singing her signature role of the ill-fated gypsy temptress. Aleksandrs Antonenko plays her desperate lover, the soldier Don José, and Ildar Abdrazakov is the swaggering bullfighter, Escamillo, who comes between them. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the irresistible score, which features one beloved and instantly recognizable melody after another.
Broadcast in HD

Encore: Sun. November 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.
Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 38 minutes

Bolshoi Ballet: Legend of Love
2014-11-02 15:00 - 18:00 | Pollak Theatre
Music Arif Melikov
Libretto Nâzım Hikmet
Original choreography Yuri Grigorovich
Cast The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps de Ballet
The royal apartments of Queen Mekhmene Banu are plunged into mourning – her young sister, Princess Shyrin, is dying. The Princess will only be saved if the Queen gives Shyrin her beauty. The Queen decides to sacrifice herself, but later regrets her action when she is disfigured and Shyrin falls in love with the Queen’s own lover, the painter Ferkhad.
This splendid tale of forbidden love, self-sacrifice, jealousy and suffering returns to the Bolshoi stage after a ten-year absence. The Legend of Love is one of Russian master Yuri Grigorovich’s earliest choreographic works, and its storyline explores the conflict between love and duty through its two heroines.
Featuring dance movements, sets and costumes inspired by the Middle East, this stunning ballet, which uses pure dance to tell the story, is further enriched by the talent of the Bolshoi troupe.
Running time 3hr

College Sports: Upon Further Review
2014-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Pollak Theatre
You are cordially invited to attend an expert panel discussion, “College Sports: Upon Further Review,” on Wednesday, November 5, in Pollak Theatre, that will address the complex issues surrounding commercialism in college athletics.
The expert panel will include: Monmouth University President Dr. Paul R. Brown; Dan Beebe, founder and principal of the Dan Beebe Group and the former Commissioner of the Big 12 and Ohio Valley Conferences; and Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission, which was formed in 1989 in response to more than a decade of highly visible scandals in college sports.
This event is free for all to attend. No RSVP is required.

Film Screening: Bridegroom & Q/A with Shane Bitney Crone
2014-11-05 14:30 - 18:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center
Bridegroom chronicles the story of Shane Bitney Crone and his same-sex partner Thomas, who died in a tragic accident. The story of what happened after his accidental death– of how people without the legal protections of marriage can find themselves completely shut out opens a window onto the issue of marriage equality like no speech or lecture ever will. Co-Sponsored by Student Activities Board.
This event is for Students Only.

Film Screening: Oro Macht Frei
2014-11-05 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Oro Macht Frei tells the story of the Roman Jewish experience of the Nazi occupation of Rome (Sept 1943 – June 1944). Weaving testimony from Roman Jews together with historical research by renowned scholars on the subject (including Susan Zuccotti, Alexander Stille, Liliana Picciotto), OMF seeks to bring the viewer into a personal and relatable reflection of the Holocaust in Italy through the eyes of this unique and historic community.
There will be a panel/Q & A following screening.
The panel includes: Joel Markel, Producer/Founder of Ottimo FilmsSusan Zuccotti, American historian, specializing in Holocaust studiesJane Denny, Director of Education CHHANGE (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education) at Brookdale CollegeSaliba Sarsar, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Monmouth UniversityCatherine Campbell, Producer/Editor/Writer for Ottimo Films
Moderated by Susan Douglas, Specialist Professor of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University.

Our Town by Thornton Wilder
2014-11-05 20:00 - 2014-11-15 22:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
November 5 – 9 and 12 – 15, 2014Lauren K. Woods Theatre
A University-wide production of the classic Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder, Our Town tells the universal story of small town America. Though taking place in the first decade of the 20th century and written in 1938, Our Town has consistently been hailed as a theatrical masterpiece. A New York production won the Tony Award for best revival in 1989 and an off-Broadway presentation in 2009 won accolades from critics and audiences alike and ran for nearly 3 years. Performed with little scenery and having the character of Stage Manager directly address the audience, Our Town asks us to consider what is important in life. When Emily wants to relive a day in her life, she is told “Choose the least important day of your life; it will be important enough.”

Symposium on Religion in Public Life
2014-11-06 10:00 - 16:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
A symposium hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Religion and Interdisciplinary studies reflecting on the impact and significance of Pope Francis’s papacy for global and American Catholicism from both ecclesiastical and scholarly perspectives. Speakers will include the Most Rev. David M. O’Connell, the tenth Bishop of Trenton, and Susan Abraham, associate professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University. The symposium is sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of Global Initiatives.
RSVP to Ms. Lynette Ming at lming@monmouth.edu. If you have any questions please call 732-263-5501 or extension 5501.

National Theatre of London: A Street Car Named Desire
2014-11-06 19:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
The fastest-selling production in the Young Vic’s history, Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire will be broadcast live from their London home by National Theatre Live. With Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall) as Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, Three Sisters at the Young Vic) as Stella. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Visionary director Benedict Andrews returns to the Young Vic following his Critics’ Circle Award-winning Three Sisters.

Gallery Exhibition - Evelyn Leavens Retrospective 1924 - 2013
2014-11-07 09:00 - 2014-12-19 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
November 7 – December 19
Rechnitz Hall’s DiMattio Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, November 14, 2014 from 7 – 9 pm
Born in 1924, Evelyn Leavens is a life long resident of Red Bank. Her first solo show was in 1952 at the Old Mill Gallery, Tinton Falls, known then for the introduction of Alice Neel and Martha Graham.
In 1958 a book of drawings “Boswells’ Life of Boswell” by Leavens was published by Simon and Schuster which became #2 on the New York Times children’s best seller that year.
She has received two fellowships from N.J. State Council of the Arts and was included in the 1977 N.J. Arts Council biennial at the Trenton State Museum. Her work has shown, notably, at City Without Walls, Aljira, Tweeds, Summit Art Center and the Morris State Museum.
Primarily self taught, she attended the Vermont Studio Center in 1987 where she studied with Malcolm Morley, Archie Rand and Niel Welliver.
“Black Convergence is a bit hard to describe. First, it is not an abstract. It takes nothing from nothing. This painting is non-objective because it has nothing in its mind to start with. The first mark on the paper is the way to the second mark. This progresses, through many marks and changes to become a true non-objective. It makes many changes until, through love and hate, eventually becomes acceptable. I never give up”.
– Evelyn Leavens
This exhibition will include works from throughout the artist’s life.
Image Caption: Black Convergence, 2012, Watercolor on paper, 16″ x 20”

Fall Poetry Festival
2014-11-08 09:00 - 17:00 | Bey Hall
Do you write poetry? Have you considered writing or translating poetry? Do you love language and its ability to engage in meaningful exploration? Monmouth University and the Long Branch Arts Council invite you to a series of workshops in poetry, lyrical essay, and translation of poetry; readings by acclaimed writers; lunch & discussion, and a reading by registered participants.
On Friday, October 31, 11:30-1:00, poet Judith Vollmer will offer a master class/workshop (“The Transfer: How a Poem Reveals Hidden Gifts”) in Wilson 311.
Workshop leaders and readers for the November 8th day-long fest: Gabor Barabas, Michael Broek, Natalie Diaz, Prescott Evarts, Jr., Melissa Febos, Carmen Firan, Marisa Frasca, Laura McCullough, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Suzanne Parker, Michael Waters, and Dan Weeks.
Admission to readings is free and open to the public. The workshops, also free, will be open to registrants only: for more information and to register, email Sara Rimassa at monmouthreview@gmail.com (“Poetry Fest” in subject line) no later than Tue, October 28th.
This event is co-sponsored by the Long Branch Arts Council, the City of Long Branch, Investors Bank Foundation, Monmouth Arts/ArtHelps, the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, the Department of English at Monmouth University, and The Monmouth Review.
Saturday, November 8th, 2014, Bey Hall (Monmouth University), 9:00-5:00
9:00-9:45 Sign-in for registrants in Bey Hall (refreshments)
9:45-10:00 Welcome (Gabor Barabas and Mihaela Moscaliuc) and workshop information
10-11:30 Workshops
11:30-12:30 Lunch discussion for registrants: The Monmouth Review information session; Q & A about submission & editorial process with poet Dan Weeks, editor of This Broken Shore.
12:30-1:20 Reading: Gabor Barabas, Michael Broek, Natalie Diaz, Prescott Evarts, Jr., Melissa Febos, and Dan Weeks
1:30-3:00 Workshops
3:00-4:00 Reading: Carmen Firan, Marisa Frasca, Laura McCullough, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Suzanne Parker, and Michael Waters.
4:00-5:00 Reading by registered festival participants

True Blues with Corey Harris, Guy Davis, and Alvin Youngblood Hart
2014-11-08 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Hosted by Corey Harris, a MacArthur Grant recipient, and featuring renowned roots musicians Guy Davis and Alvin Youngblood Hart, True Blues chronicles the extraordinary living culture of the blues in an evening of music and conversation. In bringing the True Blues film to the concert stage, the True Blues concert vividly brings to life this crucial wellspring of American music.
Both Corey Harris and Alvin Youngblood Hart were featured in Martin Scorcese’s “The Blues: A Musical Journey,” which followed Corey on a roots journey to West Africa. Alvin contributed, as well, to Wim Wenders’ ”The Soul Of a Man” and Denzel Washington’s “The Great Debaters.” Guy has often followed in the Thespian footsteps of his parents, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, most recently in the Broadway revival of “Finian’s Rainbow,” and earlier in “Mulebone” and “Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil.”
Blues is at the center of their artistry, and the blues takes center stage in True Blues, the concert.

Met Opera: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Encore
2014-11-09 13:00 - 16:15 | Pollak Theatre
Met
Music Director James Levine conducts a spirited new production of Mozart’s
masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who sets the action of this classic
domestic comedy in a 19th-century manor house in Seville, but during the gilded
age of the late 1920s. Dashing bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast in
the title role of the clever servant, opposite Marlis Petersen as his bride,
Susanna, Peter Mattei as the philandering Count they work for, Amanda Majeski as the long-suffering Countess, and Isabel Leonard as the
libidinous pageboy Cherubino.

Nine for IX: The 99'ers
2014-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
A look at the 1999 women’s national soccer team and the impact of their World Cup victory on the sport of soccer and female athletes overall. Nine for IX is a series of documentary films which originally aired on ESPN celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Four of the episodes will be screened during the year.

Visiting Writer: Joyce Carol Oates
2014-11-13 16:30 - 18:30 | Pollak Theatre
There is no more versatile and accomplished American writer than Joyce Carol Oates. The author of many books, Oates has penned bestselling novels, critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, as well as essays, plays, poetry, a recent memoir, A Widow’s Story, and an unlikely bestseller, On Boxing. Her remarkable literary industry – which includes work as an editor and anthologist – spans forms, themes, topics and genres. Writing in The Nation, critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. said, “A future archeologist equipped only with her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America.” In 2010, reflecting the widespread esteem in which her work is held, President Barack Obama awarded Oates the National Humanities Medal. Best known for her fiction, Oates’ novels include them, which won the National Book Award; Blonde, a bold reimagining of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe; The Falls, which won the France’s Prix Femina; The Gravedigger’s Daughter and Little Bird of Heaven, each set in upstate New York; and We Were the Mulvaneys, which follows the disintegration of an American family and which became a bestseller after being selected by Oprah’s Book Club. Her 2012 publications include the novels Daddy Love, and Mudwoman, and Black Dahlia & White Rose, a collection of stories. Her novel, The Accursed, was released in March 2013. Her recent novel Carthage (January 2014) was a New York Times bestseller. Her new book is High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (April 2014).High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers Oates’ short fiction from earlier collections and includes eleven additional tales that further demonstrate the artistry and originality of a writer who “has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces” (Chicago Tribune). Included in this volume is Oates’ most anthologized short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Inspired by a song by Bob Dylan, it was later adapted as a film, Smooth Talk. It is one of a handful of Oates’ works made into films or movies for television. The latest adaption is Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012), by Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet. Since 1963, forty of Oates’s books have been included on the New York Times list of notable books of the year. Among her many honors are two O. Henry Prizes and two Bram Stoker Awards, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, World Fantasy Award, and M. L. Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 2009, Oates was given the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Critics Circle. In 2012, she was awarded both the Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement and the PEN Center USA Award for Lifetime Achievement. In March 2014 she will be awarded the Poets & Writers Distinguished Lifetime Award.
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and since 1978, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Skippyjon Jones
2014-11-14 10:00 - 11:15 | Pollak Theatre
Skippyjon Jones is a little kitten with big ears and even bigger dreams! Sometimes he pretends to be a bird, sometimes he pretends to be a llama, and sometimes he pretends to be a whale… Anything BUT a Siamese cat!
His Mama sends him to his room so that he can think about behaving like the cat he really is. While bouncing on his big boy bed, Skippyjon’s wild imagination takes over again as he catches his reflection in a mirror. “Holy guacamole,” Skippyjon exclaims. “My ears are too big for my head, my head is too big for my body. I am not a Siamese cat – I am a CHIHUAHUA!”
And not just any Chihuahua. He dons a mask, a cape, and an accent, and transforms into Skippito Friskito, the greatest canine sword fighter in old Mexico! But when the local pack of chihuahuas is terrorized by the gigantic bee, Alfredo Buzzito El Blimpo Bublebeeto Bandito, will Skippyjon be a ‘fraidy-cat or the top dog?
Based on the book by Judy Schachner, Skippyjon Jones is an enchanting musical about unleashing your powerful imagination and following your dreams.

(Approximately one hour in length, recommended for grades K- 4)
Curriculum Connections: Communication and Language Arts, Literature-Based, Music, Relationships & Family, Social Studies.

*Tickets on sale July 1st*

Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools
2014-11-14 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools return to the Pollak Theatre for another riveting evening embarking on a stripped down journey through Johnny Lyon’s eclectic version of the Great American Songbook. Playing a wide range of music from Dylan, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, The Band, George Jones and more, The Poor Fools also dive into some of the Southside’s Asbury Jukes material–revisiting some classics as well as the underperformed deep tracks. In this incarnation, musicians such as Jeff Kazee, John Conte, Tommy Byrnes, and Neal “The Dude” Pawley, join Johnny for singing, playing, and having some fun on stage. It will be a loose mix of songs, stories, and banter between the musicians and–hopefully–the audience.
No rules. No fences. With Lyon shaking up each night’s setlist for himself and his gang of multi-instrumentalist band members, these troubadours ride the rails of the runaway train known as Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools.

Bob Burger will be opening the show.
All ticket holders will receive a free autographed poster signed by the artists after the show.

Deadline to submit substitutions and waivers for January 2015 Graduation
2014-11-15
