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G Force: Of Jesuits and Jewishness
Robert Maryks is an expert on the history of early Jesuits — the Society of Jesus — and recently presented a paper at Boston College based on his book “The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus.’’ In it, Maryks details the significant role of “conversos’’ — ... (By Sam Allis, Globe Staff)
Commencements
Yesterday: Massachusetts College of Art and Design At Evans Way Park. Speakers: Lowery Stokes Sims, curator; Josh Randall, senior creative director at Harmonix Music Systems Inc. Expected graduates: approximately 325 receiving bachelor’s degrees, 35 master’s degrees. Degrees: Bachelor of fine arts, master of fine arts, master of science in art education. Honorary degrees: Sims.(Boston Globe)
Springfield school hopes to stay open
A Springfield charter school embroiled in an MCAS cheating scandal will make a final pitch to state education officials Monday to remain open, even as a new state report provides further details on the cheating and the alleged attempts to thwart a state investigation.(By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)
Teen in ‘sexting’ case sues Pa. school district
A Pennsylvania school district that was at the center of a highly publicized “sexting’’ case was sued yesterday by a teenager who claims her principal confiscated her cellphone, found nude images she had taken of herself, and turned it over to prosecutors. (Associated Press)
Report critical of colleges’ risk-taking
Large endowments like those at Harvard University and Dartmouth College took on too much risk and helped fuel Wall Street’s meltdown, according to a new report, which charges that such schools threatened their financial stability by abandoning their historic mission to preserve assets. (By Beth Healy, Globe Staff)
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