MC in the News Archive

FLANKED BY Manhattan College president Brennan O'Donnell, left, and men's basketball coach Steve Masiello, right, Rudolph W. Giuliani '65, receives a Jaspers basketball jersey bearing his name after speaking during a 9/11 commemoration on Sept. 9.

Mitchell S. Aboulafia, director of interdivisional liberal arts at Juilliard School, to professor and chair of the philosophy department at Manhattan College.

Nationally, the peace education movement is growing— some say surging—because of the continued failure of military solutions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the belief that alternatives to violence do exist. In 1970 only Manchester College, a Church of the Brethren school in Indiana, offered a degree in peace studies. The Peace and Justice Studies Association, based at Arizona's Prescott College, estimates that more than 500 undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs are now being offered on US campuses. The schools include American University, Manhattan College, Hobart, Guilford, Tufts, Wellesley, Earlham, Goucher, Colgate, Goshen, Berkeley and the University of Colorado.

Frankie Alvarez, 18, volunteers at the National September 11 Memorial during his time away from school at Manhattan College. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, profoundly affected him, inspiring him to pursue a career in politics.