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Students mix the dough as dietitian Kathy Egan pours in a sour dough starter.  

Students knead the dough. 

The class prepares to oil the dough. 

Egan gets the dough ready for the oven. 

Finished product!

Right before Thanksgiving break, Andrea Borghini, assistant professor of philosophy, teamed up with Holy Cross Dining’s Dietitian Kathy Egan and Chef George McHugh, for a hands-on seminar about bread making. 

The first-year students, who are all part of the Montserrat Natural World Cluster, got to mix, roll, and knead bread, as part of a seminar about the philosophy of food, titled “I Am, Therefore I Eat.” The course explores how specific dietetic decisions reflect a detailed and comprehensive image of a person or a community.

Prof. Borghini says this is the first time the class has cooked together.  “I chose bread making because it represents family or a group of people and brings a community together,” he shares.

Montserrat’s Global Society cluster held a Hunger Banquet on Thursday, Nov. 5 to raise awareness of disparities in food access locally and globally. More than 200 students and faculty participated in the lottery-styled meal that highlighted hunger and homelessness across the globe.

Fifteen percent of attendees enjoyed three-course meals served by wait staff, representing the proportion of the world’s population able to afford a nutritious daily diet; 35 percent received a healthy supply of beans and rice; representing those living on the edge of poverty; and a third group, comprised of 50 percent of participants, was given only ½ cup of rice and water, representing the majority of the world’s population that struggles daily to find food, water and shelter.

During the banquet, Liz Sheehan Castro of the Worcester County Food Bank; John Perkins of the Heifer Project; Drew Rapa ’14, co-chair of the College’s Oxfam chapter; and Michaela Johnson ’13, SPUD intern coordinator of hunger and homeless projects, spoke about local and global food challenges.

Holy Cross’ Counseling Center Peer Educators program (COPE) has recently been awarded a $2,000 gift to help facilitate a stronger connection between the center and students on the Hill. The General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Massachusetts (GFWC) made the donation to bolster COPE’s outreach programming, which is designed to increase student awareness of mental health issues and to reduce the stigma associated with seeking help.

From left to right are: Samir Nomani ’15, Sean Coyle ’15, Sarah Erickson (coordinator of COPE), Paul Galvinhill (director of the counseling center), and T Jablanski (former director of GFWC of Massachusetts).

Holy Cross students taking part in the College’s Washington Semester Program pose with David Gregory, moderator of NBC News’ Sunday morning talk show “Meet the Press.” The visit was arranged by Adam Verdugo ’06, senior producer at “Meet the Press,” and fall semester intern David Perretta ’14. From left, Riquel Gonzalez ’14, Lauren McDonough ’14, Sara Bovat ’14, Christopher Golden ’13, Christopher Gillis ’14, Garrett Bych ’14, Patrick Horan ’14, Gregory, Annie Wynters ’14, John Castro ’14, Perretta, William Wahrer ’14, Verdugo and Kelly Dyer ’14.

Courtesy “Meet the Press”

Grounds workers Brendon Connor, foreground, and Rich Clark plant kale outside St. Joseph Memorial Chapel.

Photograph by Nick Markantonatos

The Holy Cross campus is awash in beautiful fall colors.

Photography by John Morton ’15

Lauren McNamara ’11, who is currently teaching in New Orleans through Teach for America, transformed her classroom into a mini-Holy Cross, painting the walls purple and using the mission and values of the College to teach her students about the many possibilities college can provide to them and the numerous possibilities outside the state of Louisiana.

McNamara, who currently teaches sixth grade reading says, “I joined Teach for America after finding my most memorable experiences at Holy Cross were those in which I was out in the community, following the mission ‘men and women for others.’”

Scores of students, faculty and staff attend a “fishbowl” discussion on affirmative action in the Rehm Library. The discussion was preceded by a talk titled “The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action” last month.

Featured participants included, from left, Patricia Giglio ’14; Margaret Freije, associate dean of the College; Thomas Landy, director of the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture (moderator); Antonio Willis-Berry ’13; Kendy Hess, Brake-Smith Assistant Professor in Social Philosophy and Ethics; Darrell Byers ’83, director of development at WBUR; Christopher Theobalt ’13; and Ariel Jimenez ’13.

Professor Hess makes a point during the discussion.

Theobalt, a political science major with an Italian minor from Garden City, N.Y., takes part in the discussion.

Photography by Chris Ryan, S.J., and Nick Markantonatos