Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Saint Mary's Holds On for Win
After routing Arizona State 59-15 on Jan. 17, Saint Mary's rugby took on Olympic Club Jan. 24. SMC alum Michael Haley scored first for Olympic Club. Led by great plays from Kingsley McGowan, SMC took the lead 24-19 at halftime. The Gaels strengthened their defensive ...Submitted by Tony Samaniego
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| Wednesday, January 28, 2015
SMC Basketball Improving on Strong Start
The Saint Mary's men's basketball team (16-4, 8-1 WCC) is off to an unexpectedly hot start this year, despite some big changes in the roster.
This past week, the team bounced back from ...By Michael Sakoda
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| Wednesday, January 28, 2015
'Take a Picture/Tell a Story' Art Exhibit Opens at SMC Museum of Art
The phrase "every picture tells a story" is given new meaning by San Francisco-based photographer Robert Gumpert in his first exhibitions in the United States, "Take a Picture/Tell a Story" and "I need some deodorant. My skin's getting restless," which will be on ...By Ryan McKinley
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| Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Brother Fire Chief
Christopher Donnelly moves a bit closer to heaven each time he reports to work at his second job. During the academic school year "Brother Chris," a Christian Brother assigned to Saint Mary's College, serves as project manager of facilities services for the college. ...By Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Saint Mary's Off to Strong Start Despite Loss
The Saint Mary's women's basketball team faltered over the weekend amidst one of their hottest starts in recent memory. The Gaels started this year 11-5 (4-1 WCC), and they're striving to grow together.
By Michael Sakoda
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| Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Lunafest: Short Films By, For and About Women
Lovers and supporters of women's voices and the arts will gather in Saint Mary's Soda Center at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21 for the Moraga screening of "Lunafest," a traveling film festival filled with stories by women, for women and about women. The festival is being ...By A. K. Carroll
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| Wednesday, January 14, 2015
SMC Jan Term Speaker Series Focuses on Lives Well-Lived
"There's nothing wrong with being really different," said Jesse Saperstein, motivational speaker and best-selling author of the book "Atypical: Life with Asperger's in 20 1/3 Chapters."
By A. K. Carroll
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2014
'Soup and Substance' Invites Discussion of Lasallian Education
A long wooden table is blanketed in red, laden with baskets of fresh sourdough and set with clean glass goblets, stiff white napkins and white ceramic plates and bowls. Around the table, 14 wooden chairs wait to be filled. A vat of steaming vegetable barley soup stands ...By A. K. Carroll
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| Wednesday, December 17, 2014
SMC Organizes Peaceful Protest Following Ferguson and NY Indictment Decisions
Approximately 200 Saint Mary's College students, faculty and staff joined the growing number of protests in the Bay Area that followed grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The group staged a "die-in" and ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, December 03, 2014
SMC Lecture on Ageism Points to Need for More Support
Everybody loves new things. Whether it's for the latest iPhone update or the most recent car model, Americans will line up in the street, figuratively and literally, to seek out anything sparkly and new. According to Mary McCall, professor of psychology at Saint Mary's ...By Lauren Kim
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| Wednesday, November 05, 2014
'Anyone Can Whistle' Opens at SMC
In one of Broadway's briefest here and gone debuts, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's sophomore turn, "Anyone Can Whistle," had only nine performances.
Opening on April 4, 1964, ...By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The Unique Life of Baby Owen
Owen Jones is in many regards a typical 2-year-old Moraga toddler. He has two loving parents and a lot of friends. What sets him apart is that most of his friends are between the ages of 18 and 22 years - not months - old.
By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Unique Korean Ensemble to Play at SMC
"A living, breathing life form." This is how Martin Rokeach, composer and professor of music at Saint Mary's College describes the music of JUL, a Korean ensemble of three female musicians who play the gayageum, a traditional Korean instrument resembling a zither. The ...By Amanda Kuehn Carroll
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| Wednesday, August 13, 2014
A Literary Life
Saint Mary's College adjunct professor Jeff Chon is something of a renaissance man. Chon is equally knowledgeable in baseball and comic books as he is in Alice Munro's use of the retrospective narrator. At heart Chon is a writer, and he holds a Master of Fine Arts ...By Ryan McKinley
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| Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Words That Change Our World
Former Saint Mary's College Gaels guard and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player Matthew Dellavedova can't remember which SMC coach handed him a page printed from Andre Agassi's autobiography, "Open," but he's never forgotten it.
By Lou Fancher
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