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Soccer coach to run marathon for Boston youth program
Jennifer Goff, assistant coach of the women’s varsity soccer Terriers, will run the Boston Marathon on April 18, part of a team of five runners hoping to raise $15,000 for CityKicks, a nonprofit after-school soccer and youth development program for underserved Boston public school middle school girls. By supplementing the Boston school system’s athletic offerings, CityKicks aims to “break the alarming trend of inactivity among middle-school aged girls in urban areas and gain the benefits of structured sports including higher levels of self-esteem, lower incidences of depression, enhanced personal skills and greater success in school,” according to the organization’s literature. Donations can be made directly to the CityKicks marathon team online at www.justgiving.com/pfp/citykickssoccer.
Sargent Choice food available across campus
Sargent College’s nutrition program has teamed up with the Sargent Nutrition and Fitness Center and Dining Services to sell its line of Sargent Choice healthful food items at select locations on the Charles River Campus. The muffins and cookies, available in a wide variety of flavors, all are made from 100 percent whole grain, contain no trans fat, and are high in fiber and low in sugar, saturated fat, and sodium. They are being sold at the College of Arts and Sciences café and at the new Fitness and Recreation Center.
CFA student composer places in two international contests
Matthew Van Brink (CFA’05) recently won a 2004 TransforMusic Competition Award, in an international composition contest sponsored by TransforMusic, a Hungarian organization that promotes genre-crossing between classical and popular music. Van Brink’s Whims and Whispers, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, violincello, and contrabass, was one of three winning compositions chosen from among 61 entries and will be performed at a gala event at Hungary’s National Defense Culture Center in Budapest on April 14. Van Brink, who is working toward a doctorate in musical arts, will receive 1,500 euros. The student of CFA Music Professor Lukas Foss (Hon.’03) also won an honorable mention recently in American University’s Saxophone Symposium Composition Competition for his work Sonatina for Alto Saxophone and Piano. The international contest recognizes compositions written for saxophone and piano or the unaccompanied saxophone and previously unperformed in professional venues. The winning composers included music professors and other music professionals, as well as college students. Van Brink currently is at work on an opera, The Secret Broadcaster, with a story and libretto by Jesse Jarnow. His other recent compositions include music for dance and film and chamber music for the concert setting.
APARC hosts summit of African leaders
Twelve former African heads of state will gather at BU on April 12 and 13 to discuss ways to attract Western business and increase capital flow to Africa. Participants in the summit, which is hosted by the African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC), include Nicephore Soglo of Benin, Sir Q. Ketumile J. Masire of Botswana, who is working and studying in the United States until November as APARC’s current Balfour African President-in-Residence, Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro of Cape Verde, Aristides Maria Pereira of Cape Verde, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, Dr. Bakili Muluzi of Malawi, Karl Auguste Offmann of Mauritius, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam of Mauritius, Joaquim Alberto Chissano of Mozambique, Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania, and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. Also participating in discussions will be faculty members and students from BU and five other universities as part of APARC’s American-African Universities Collaborative: the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, the University of Ghana at Legon, Morehouse College in Atlanta, and Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Events include a free public forum from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, at the SMG Auditorium. For more information, call 617-353-5452.
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April 2005
Boston University
Office of University Relations