News Briefs

New Art Prof. Announced

Dean of the College Clayton Koppes announced Thursday that the College's new Luce Professor of Emerging Arts position has been awarded to acclaimed arts scholar Linda Weintraub.

Weintraub earned her Master of Fine Arts at Rutgers University, where she completed a thesis entitled "The Art of Transcendent Connections: A Study of Integration of Art and the Non-Judeo/Christian Religious Movements in the 1960s." Weintraub received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, splitting her undergraduate studies between Douglas College and Rutgers University.

Weintraub has previously taught 20th century American and European art history, studio art, senior and graduate seminar and numerous interdisciplinary courses in the 20th century. She has served as an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz, Marist College, Williams College, Allentown College of St. Francis DeSalles, Lafayette College and has lectured at Muhlenberg College and Cedar Crest College. She has organized multiple interdisciplinary programming in her career, including arts festivals and conferences, and even obscure hands-on learning activities such as recreations of a Greek marathon race, and 19th century sketching trips.

Weintraub's experience proves her qualifications for the position, which will incorporate several aspects of art disciplines to apply in the classroom. The search for the Luce professor drew from a large pool of candidates. Weintraub will begin her new position this Fall.

-Lauren Viera

Bookstore Closing Soon

Come April, South Hall basement will be just a little emptier. The temporary South bookstore will sell its remaining merchandise back to the original vendors during spring break, leaving student procrastinators without an on-campus option for buying the last of their books.

Students seem unconcerned about the imminent loss of textbooks. "I don't really see any problems at this point in the semester," said senior Ben Dagnon. "The only way I can see it having any affect is if you were extremely slow in buying your books or if you have second module courses. And there's always online bookstores."

The South Bookstore opened in response to the fact that the Co-op Bookstore was forced to close its doors late last semester due to struggling sales and crippling mortgages. The College stepped in to fulfill student textbook needs, but stressed that it would be a temporary one-semester solution and would only last until spring break.

The College is currently soliciting applicants to provide a bookstore for the Fall semester, and hopes to purchase for this purpose the space the Co-op originally occupied.

-Elizabeth Heron