I am confident that we are of a size and nimbleness that allow us to capitalize on the positive underpinnings beneath an iceberg that most folks can only see the tip of. This is a time for vision, imagination, energy and action tempered by a prudence that capitalizes on latent opportunities without jeopardizing the enterprise or compromising our mission of educating leaders to fashion a more humane and just world.

Rev. Stephen A. Privett, S.J., USF Town Hall Meeting April 2009

With the goal of providing additional context to the ongoing crisis in higher education, Gleeson Library has collected a set of articles and other resources that discuss the current state of budgeting, enrollment management, endowments and other topics from institutions with budgeting challenges similar to the ones we face at USF. This list is just a start. If you have other articles you’d like to see on this page, please let us know in the comments below.

The Donohue Rare Book Room is currently hosting an exhibition of the book, Arch, a collaboration between Holly Downing, a printmaker, and Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. The book features an excerpt of a dialogue from Paul Valéry’s Eupalinos, or The Architect and five mezzotint engravings. The mezzotints were inspired by arches in Montecastello di Vibio and Perugia, Italy. The exhibition also includes photographs, tools and correspondence showing the process involved in the creation of the prints and the book.

An opening reception with the artists will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 on Thursday, February 25^th in the Donohue Rare Book Room. The exhibition will continue through March 31. For further information, please call (415) 422-2036.

John Hawk
Head Librarian, Donohue Rare Book Room

bake a loaf of bread assignment for students in green media

1. in addition to our other readings for this friday, read "Basic White Bread – Ten Steps to Fresh-baked Goodness," from Sunset Cook Book of Breads; Molly Katzen, "An Illustrated Guide to the Baking of Yeast Bread," from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest; and Brother Rick Curry, S.J., "Making Bread," from The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking.

2. either individually or collaboratively, bake a loaf of bread. document the process.

3. bring your loaf of bread to class on friday, february 26. also bring a plate to class so that you can sample other people's loaves.

4. along with your loaf, bring a little something to accompany it (a bread accessory!) - honey, jam, herb butter, lilikoi flavored butter, cheese, lunch meat, an avocado, hummus, aioli, olives, you name it. to avoid duplication and to give us a sense of the feast that stands before us, tweet your bread accessory once you've decided on it. also bring a serving utensil for your bread accessory.

5. on friday, after we plant our garden plot, we will break bread together.

6. using multimedia and an online platform that allows readers the opportunity to leave comments, make a recipe and share it online. once finished, and certainly before sunset on sunday, tweet about it. be sure to include a link so that others can read your recipe.


rules:

1. do not be intimidated by this assignment. have fun with it.

2. no late work accepted.

We’re proud that Gleeson Library is a co-sponsor of USF’s 8th Human Rights Film Festival, free and open to the public this Thursday through Saturday.

From USF students’ short films screening Thursday afternoon, to presentations of documentaries co-sponsored by USF’s LGBT Caucus and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women… from the U.S. military to the International Criminal Court, from the sweatshops of Los Angeles to a squatter settlement in South Africa, the power of film can educate viewers and show the way to action for human rights locally and around the world.

From the website:

This year, the Festival will take place on February 18, 19, and 20. It will include films focusing on Ecuador, Haiti. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and the U.S., as well as other countries and regions in a couple of documentaries that illustrate the scope of global poverty and the crimes against humanity that prompted the formation of the International Criminal Court. For the second year, the festival offers a selection of shorts produced by USF students. In addition to the screenings, we are delighted to present a musical performance by Kalbass Kreyol, A Bay Area Haitian Band.

The festival will be held at the Presentation Theater, on Turk St. near Masonic Ave.

garden project and green media students - this friday we'll be field-tripping to the inner sunset to forage for wild greens. we'll meet at the garden for the environment at 10:30 am sharp. don't be late. here are walking/biking directions and muni bus directions from USF to the GFE.

justin valone, of USF's garden project, will lead and teach us about foraging.


what should you bring?

1. comfortable shoes;

2. a bowl and fork for salad;

3. some kind of salad amendments - nuts, seeds, homemade dressing;

4. your thoughts and ideas about chapter one of novella carpenter's farm city; and

5. if it's raining, bring rain gear.