March
8, 2002
Front-Page
News
Tax Credit If Americans Really Understood the Income
Tax, an analysis of the nation's complex tax laws by MHC visiting
lecturer John O. Fox, is "a very good book," reviewer
Charles Davenport writes in the February 25 edition of Tax
Notes, the nation's leading tax policy and news magazine.
"Fox turned all of the stones to bring the economic and political
concerns of the income tax into language that can be read by someone
not schooled in income taxes. For this, commendation is high,"
writes Davenport. Davenport concludes by suggesting that citizens
must be able to understand and debate tax law for a democracy
to function well. "Might not the knowledge and skills patiently
explained by Fox over many pages be as necessary to a stable democracy
as the three Rs of readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic?" he asks.
Ahead of the Curve A February 1 article in the Wall
Street Journal discusses stepped-up efforts by leading American
collegesÑincluding Yale, Boston College, and EmoryÑto attract
international students who may not have the ability to pay fully
for their education in the United States. MHC is among the institutions
mentioned. Seventeen percent of MHC students are international.
This represents the largest international student population among
national liberal arts colleges. The College has long had a policy
of providing need-based financial aid for international, as well
as domestic students.
Terrorism and Curricula Kavita Khory, MHC associate professor
of politics, is quoted in an article titled "Sept. 11 Reshapes
Halls of Academe" by Patrick Johnson that appeared in the
February 11 Holyoke edition of the Springfield Union-News.
The piece focuses on how the terrorist attacks have led colleges
across the country to scramble to create courses that will meet
student demand to learn about issues arising in the wake of the
terrorist attacks. Khory notes that her seminar Nationalism and
Ethnic Conflict has had a doubling of enrollment since the fall.
According to Khory, writes Johnson, "Although it does not
deal specifically with Sept. 11 or the aftermath, the [enrollment]
jump is the result of students having a real hunger to put Sept.
11 into perspective."
Like Father Like Daughter An article in the "Weekend"
section of the February 22 New York Times covers the Metropolitan
Museum's Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter
Painters in Baroque Italy, an exhibition arranged by a group
of curators that includes Judith W. Mann '72, curator of European
art at the Saint Louis Museum of Art. Although he held an "ambiguous
position" between artistic movements and was eclipsed by
Artemisia's success. Orazio Gentileschi (1563Ð1639) was more than
his daughter's teacher, writes Michael Kimmelman. Orazio was capable
of works "so tenderly painted they can make you weep,"
he notes, commending the show for bringing the artist to the attention
of the modern art public. The exhibition's display of works by
Artemisia, he finds, show her to be "a more complicated painter
than her biographers indicate," an artist who refused to
conform to clichés and predisposed interpretations, who
was capable of both eloquent, forceful works and eclectic, pedestrian
ones.
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