On Tuesday night I went with a bunch of softball teammates to the Clark women’s basketball scrimmage against Becker College at the Kneller. It’s the first time that they had played at home this year. Personally I only went to a handful of basketball games last year and the year before, but I’ll be going to a lot more this year (especially because #5 Blaize lives on the floor below me!). Needless to say, our team looks ready for this season. The Cougars jumped out to a 17-0 lead against Becker, and it never was close for the rest of the game. Even though it was only a scrimmage, it was great to see a lot of Clark fans at the game – some people even made posters. If the season turns out anything like the game did, Clark women’s basketball should be poised for a run at the NEWMAC title. Go Cougars!
Wednesday afternoon I headed to the Rose Library in the Cohen-Lasry house (aka the Holocaust and Genocide Studies building) to listen to Joshua Rubenstein, a scholar of Russian Jewry, lecture about his new book on Nazi occupation in Soviet Russia named “The Unknown Black Book: the Holocaust on Jewish-occupied Soviet Territory and the Response by Soviet Jewish Intellectuals”. When discussing the Holocaust, it often seems that the atrocities committed in Soviet Russia are not covered as much. Perhaps this is because there aren’t concentration camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau which are recognizable to the public ear – in fact, a large part of Soviet Jewish persecution by the Nazis was based on traveling Nazi police units. Rubenstein discusses this and more, including the consequences of persecution (notably mass starvation and brutality), within his work. It’s fantasic that students at Clark have the opportunity to meet and listen to notable Holocaust scholars that are tops in their respective fields.
posts by Darcey
- We're Talkin Softball - March 30th, 2009
- Field Trip and Annie's - March 16th, 2009
- Busy Wednesday - February 17th, 2009
- Athletics and more Athletics - February 3rd, 2009
- Happy 2009! - January 18th, 2009
- Women's Basketball and As Bees in Honey Drown - November 23rd, 2008
- Super Tuesday (through Saturday) - November 10th, 2008
- The Final Countdown - November 3rd, 2008
- HGS Lecture and other stuff - October 26th, 2008
- Lazy Sunday - October 19th, 2008
- Midterms... - October 11th, 2008
- Hey Clark! - October 4th, 2008
