 Adjunct Professor Nominated for Academy Award
Sam Green (left), an adjunct professor in media studies, is nominated this year for an Academy Award for his 2003 feature-length documentary, The Weather Underground. The movie documents the 1960’s violent splinter group, The Weathermen, and their lives today as ordinary citizens.
“(The award) is totally thrilling,” said Green, who teaches an advanced video production class once a week on campus. “I hope (the nomination) will breathe new life into getting the movie out there.” The Weather Underground showed last year at independent movie theaters around the country.
Greens said he shot the movie over four years with just two other crew members. “It’s a complex story about violence and social change,” he said.
Chalmers Johnson Describes Four Sorrows of Empire
Calling the Pentagon the United States’ “alternative source of government” and the architect of an American world empire with more than 700 military bases across the globe, East Asian scholar Chalmers Johnson delivered a scathing report of American militarization in a public interview Jan. 28 in Lone Mountain.
Johnson, author of 20 books on East Asia and U.S. foreign policy, including his most recent, The Sorrows of Empire, said the United States’ invasion of Iraq is “illegitimate” because it bypassed international law. The United States is “demonstrating ‘Roman paranoia,’” he said, by overstretching its military in an attempt to secure oil-rich countries.
Interviewed by Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, a Kiriyama Fellow at USF’s Center for the Pacific Rim, Johnson listed the four sorrows of current American foreign policy: endless war, a compromised Constitution and the end of the Republic, a lying government, and national bankruptcy.
Globalization and Christianity Topic of 25th Paul Wattson Lecture
The growth of Catholicism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is creating “a very different kind of Church” said Philip Jenkins, distinguished professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. Citing the phenomenal growth of Christianity in Africa alone (from 10 million Christians 25 years ago to 360 million today), Jenkins said Christianity is taking on a Pentecostal, more fundamentalist stamp as people in poor, unstable areas cling to it as a source of social structure.
“Why is Christianity doing so well?” Jenkins said. “Think about it: The growth is happening in the midst of poverty, social ruin, and ubiquitous death.”
Jenkins also said Christianity is becoming a women’s movement in traditional societies because “it’s allowed them to form a voice they never formerly had.” However, new tensions are arising between the strict, conservative outlook of Pentecostal Christian movements and the more liberal policies of their U.S. or European counterparts, he said. “Denominations will come together in the U.S. but won’t pay attention to major churches in the ‘global south,’” Jenkins observed.
The Paul Wattson Lectures honor the memory of the Rev. Paul James Francis Wattson, S.A., founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. The lectures take place at selected universities in the United States and Canada. They have been held annually at USF since 1980.
School of Business and Management in Top 100
The Masagung Graduate School of Management’s master of business administration degree was ranked among the country’s top 100 MBA programs by a Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters’ favorite MBA programs.
Based on an online survey of approximately 2,000 recruiters, schools were rated on 26 attributes, including students’ analytical and problem-solving skills, personal ethics and integrity, leadership potential, and fit with corporate culture. Only the first 50 received a numerical ranking; USF ranked among the second 50.
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