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Post by hchoops on Feb 27, 2019 13:38:49 GMT -5
this congressman from Vermont is currently asking Cohen questions
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 27, 2019 15:55:28 GMT -5
Is he wearing the shield? ☺️
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 27, 2019 16:11:52 GMT -5
Mark DeSaulnier is also on the committee.
When was the last time two HC alums were on the same House committee?
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Post by hchoops on Feb 27, 2019 16:26:23 GMT -5
Mark DeSaulnier is also on the committee. When was the last time two HC alums were on the same House committee? Class of ‘74 |
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Post by lou on Feb 27, 2019 16:50:36 GMT -5
Two Boston U alums on the committee also
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 27, 2019 16:58:25 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Feb 27, 2019 17:01:54 GMT -5
Two Boston U alums on the committee also Who are they ? |
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Post by lou on Feb 27, 2019 17:15:37 GMT -5
AOC and Pressley
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 27, 2019 17:57:37 GMT -5
HC had political clout back when I-290 was being designed as the MA State House was crawling with alums and legend has it the infamous S curves were put in to save Fitton Field. I have no way to verify that old tale, however.
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 27, 2019 19:34:05 GMT -5
I heard that it was more about money than political clout. They had wanted to run it through Fitton and within a few feet of a lab building (which would have effectively prevented its use for any science labs). The Cross challenged the money offered and it was determined the "corrected" reimbursemen for what Mass wanted made the slower route prohibitively expensive.
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Post by alum on Feb 27, 2019 20:46:53 GMT -5
I heard that it was more about money than political clout. They had wanted to run it through Fitton and within a few feet of a lab building (which would have effectively prevented its use for any science labs). The Cross challenged the money offered and it was determined the "corrected" rampant for what Mass wanted made the shower route prohibitively expensive. See Father K’s book at 325-332. Ed Hanify represented the College. |
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 27, 2019 21:13:22 GMT -5
Is the lab building being referenced the old observatory?
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 27, 2019 21:14:53 GMT -5
Is the Hanify lecture named after him?
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 27, 2019 21:22:05 GMT -5
Is the Hanify lecture named after him? Yes. Can anyone name some of the notable speakers from that series? I will start with Adam Ulam. A Sovietologist at Harvard, and at the time Henry Kissinger’s chief rival regarding the academic discipline. On the HC faculty, we now have a nationally recognized Sovietologist in Prof Cynthia Hooper. |
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Post by princetoncrusader on Feb 27, 2019 21:36:25 GMT -5
The late John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist and quasi-socialist.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 27, 2019 22:29:01 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 28, 2019 0:21:32 GMT -5
Very impressive list, the honorarium must be equally impressive. The lecture usually gets positive news coverage.
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 28, 2019 7:00:29 GMT -5
Is the lab building being referenced the old observatory? No. That was a great little observatory. It was over just above the Jesuit residence (now a dorm). it can still be seen in old aerial campus photos. |
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Post by hcpride on Feb 28, 2019 7:32:44 GMT -5
AOC attended the highly regarded Yorktown High School and is a BU graduate. I thought Presley attended - but did not graduate from- BU. |
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 28, 2019 7:47:07 GMT -5
Pressly dropped out of BU. The highly regarded incumbent graduated from Dartmouth and I think BC Law, but she smoked him in a left leaning wave similar to the Contract with America wave a generation ago.
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Post by alum on Feb 28, 2019 8:12:26 GMT -5
The Hanify Howland series really has had some great speakers. In my years, the speakers were Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lester Thurow, Joe Califano, and Sarge Shriver. Goodwin is obviously a major American Presidential historian, Thurow was at the time one of the most important economists in the country and Califano, an alumnus, and Shriver, a member of a family with close HC ties were all good "gets." My father, a BC grad, was a real believer in and supporter of the Kennedy/Johnson civil rights and war on poverty initiatives. I remember him being so pleased that I had the chance to participate in the small group session with Shriver the day after the address. I have read Califano's autobiography and the Stossel book on Shriver. While neither was perfect, they both lived lives for others. Shriver spoke the day that RFK's son David had been found dead of a drug overdose in Palm Beach. He did a brief question and answer session with television crews right after the speech. The text of Shriver's speech can be found here. www.sargentshriver.org/speech-article/address-at-holy-cross-college-hanify-howland-lecture |
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Post by Tom on Feb 28, 2019 9:11:19 GMT -5
I heard that it was more about money than political clout. They had wanted to run it through Fitton and within a few feet of a lab building (which would have effectively prevented its use for any science labs). The Cross challenged the money offered and it was determined the "corrected" reimbursemen for what Mass wanted made the slower route prohibitively expensive. History has shown you don't want to be that close to the highway. There's a church in Worcester (Our Lady of Mt Carmel) that has been deemed structurally unsound supposedly because the old building couldn't stand the vibrations etc from being so close to I-290 |
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