Terrier Volume 77, Number 1 - Spring 2013 | Page 4

Campus Events Award Winning Filmmaker Todd Solondz FEBRUARY 14 With an acute awareness of the place his movies hold in the larger film industry, independent film Director Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Doll House, Happiness) came to St. Francis College to screen and talk about his latest work, Dark Horse. “While I always have ideas of things that I think would be very profitable, I never pursue them,” offered Solondz who was recently honored at the Deauville American Film Festival in France. “I prefer if I’m able, to make films that I want to make and hope there are others who will respond to the kind of stories and characters that I like to dramatize.” Who Should Be the Next Mayor of New York? Michael Powell, John Avlon, Maggie Haberman, Fred Siegel, Harry Siegel and Michael Myers. Who Should Be the Next Mayor of New York? Communication Arts Professor Scott Weiss interviews Todd Solondz. MARCH 19 Scholar-in-Residence Fred Siegel coordinated a lively discussion on the wide open race for mayor with special guests John Avlon (CNN), Michael Powell (The New York Times), Maggie Haberman (Politico), Harry Siegel (Daily Beast), and Michael Meyers (New York Civil Rights Coalition). When Nature Calls Poet Kathryn Stripling Byer FEBRUARY 6 Reading stories of the cycle of life, human history and the ephemeral world, authors Janyce StefanCole, Lisa Sita and Anne Whitehouse shared their work from the anthology, Being Human: Call وB