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Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Dartmouth is hosting the 3rd Baltimore all-Ivy happy hour. The past two
all-Ivy happy hours have had a very good turnout. Details are as
follows:
Location: The Brass Elephant's upstairs bar, Tusk Lounge (924 N.
Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201)
Specials: Two-for-one on virtually all drinks until 8:00 pm; there is a
very good bar menu should you crave a bite to eat
Brass Elephant offers free valet parking. If you would prefer not to
valet, street parking should be plentiful (assuming you arrive on the
early side). There are several surface parking lots within two blocks
as well.
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Thursday May 1st, 2008 Speaker Event
Professor Glenn Loury,
Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences and Economics at Brown and featured in the March/April 2008 issue if the Brown Alumni Monthly, will discuss Mass Incarceration and American Ideals. After providing a brief survey of the expansion of the incarceration complex in American life over the past two generations, Dr. Lowry will argue that Americans should recognize a social responsibility for this development, and that mass incarcerceration has now become a principle vehicle for the reproduction of racial heirarchy in our society.
Thursday May 1, 2008
Enoch Pratt Free Library
400 Cathedral Street
2nd Floor, Poe Room
Baltimore MD
7:00 pm Reception
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm Lecture and Discussion
RSVP: $15 by check made payable to BCGB mailed before April 23 to:
Leslie Gottert, 4116 Westview Rd, Baltimore MD 21218
All Alumni, friends and family are invited. For those interested, a late dinner with Dr Lowry will follow after the lecture (Dutch). Questions? Contact leslie Gottert at:
lesliegottert@yahoo.com or (410) 366-4872
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Wednesday May 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm
The next Steering Committee meeting of the Brown Club of Greater Baltimore (BCGB) will be held on Wednesday May 7at The Bay Cafe in Canton
All are welcome to attend.
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Thursday May 8, 2008 at 7:00 pm
The next Brown Book Club meeting will be held at
Rosemary Kostmayer's
r.kostmayer@verizon.net
The book we are reading is "The Places In Between" by Rory Stewart.
From Booklist
Stewart, a resident of Scotland, has written for the New York Times
Magazine and the London Review of Books, and he is a former fellow at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In January 2002,
having just spent 16 months walking across Iran, Pakistan, India, and
Nepal, Stewart began a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul.
Although the Taliban had been ousted several weeks earlier, Stewart
was launching a journey through a devastated, unsettled, and unsafe
landscape. The recounting of that journey makes for an engrossing,
surprising, and often deeply moving portrait of the land and the
peoples who inhabit it. Stewart relates his encounters with ordinary
villagers, security officials, students, displaced Taliban officials,
foreign-aid workers, and rural strongmen, and his descriptions of the
views and attitudes of those he lived with are presented in frank,
unvarnished terms. Nation building in Afghanistan remains a work in
progress, and this work should help those who wish to understand the
complexities of that task. Jay Freeman
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