The family of an Emerson College student who died this week days after hitting his head in some kind of fight expressed gratitude Friday for the outpouring support they’ve received about the 19-year-old. Daniel Hollis, an Emerson College student from Hopedale, Massachusetts, hit his head during an altercation early Sunday morning in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood. Boston Oct 4, 2019
A 19-year-old Emerson College student from Hopedale died this week after he hit his head during an altercation early Sunday morning in Brighton. Family and the Emerson community have been devastated by the death of sophomore marketing communications student Daniel Hollis, which police are investigating as a homicide. But much of what happened remains a mystery.
My mother, Lily, was born in 1911 on a dining room table in the Bronx. She would live through World War I, the Spanish Flu, Women’s Suffrage, the Roaring Twenties, the Stock Market Crash, the Great Depression, and World War II before she was 30. She took her final bow on June 23, 2014 at over 103 years
young. During the more-than-six decades that Lily and I were figuring us out, expectations for women were transformed again and again by the women’s movement, the sexual revolution, and the subsequent mandate for women to “have it all.”
In my career, now in its 50th year, one of the roles I had the good fortune to play, in what I believe to be one of the best musicals ever written, is Rose, in Arthur Laurents, Julie Styne, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Gypsy.”
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It takes a certain kind of masochist to truly understand what it means to be a Lions fan. It has been 30 years since the team’s last NFL playoff win, the only one this city has celebrated since 1957. And no one needs to remind the football faithful in Detroit what it felt like to watch the Lions’ march to infamy in that 0-16 season in 2008.
Fighting for a seat
Who runs N.J.? It’s still mostly men. Powerful boards lack women, despite Murphy’s pledge for diversity.
Published on May 02, 2021
Some states have laws requiring or encouraging state boards and commissions to have a 50/50 split between men and women. New Jersey is not one of them.
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At her first meeting as a new commissioner of the state Sports and Exposition Authority, Karen Kessler said officials handed her a gift.
It was a men’s necktie.
“What am I supposed to with this?” Kessler recalls saying.
The neckties, featuring the logo of the Sports and Exposition Authority, were given to every member of the powerful board. At the time, it never occurred to anyone that a woman might be a voting member of the board at the public agency that oversees sports arenas and racetracks.
Finding herself in San Francisco
After graduating high school in 2006, Xu, who identifies as queer, found people like herself in San Francisco, home to one of the largest LGBTQ communities in the country. “They gently led me in the direction (of being LGBTQ) and said, you’re not weird, ” she said.
She enrolled in The Art Institute of San Francisco before moving to the City College of San Francisco and later transferring to San Jose State University. As she continued her education, so did her creativity.
“When I started painting, my subject matter was about people just watching the ways they react to life and the ways they talk, and learning them through the energy of their personality,” Xu said.