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Mark Your Calendar: March 31-April 4 Is Career Week

John Cabot University is hosting a career week and fair from March 31 to April 4. The event is open to alumni, degree-seeking and visiting students. Throughout the week, officials from a variety of companies will be on campus to discuss the employment market, and provide helpful tips.

“This year the week will focus on how to look for a job/internship through companies belonging to the international recruiting industry,” says Laura Delli Ficorelli, the Career Services Coordinator who has been organizing the fair. 

The career week, with its fair and workshops , is a bridge between the academic world and the outside job market as for many students it is the first professional contact they get with companies and institutions. 

JCU's Model UN program breaks new ground

Congratulations to Elena Ravano, Ian Foley, Kristen Mapes, Emily Menaurd, Giulia Lorenzini, and Ottavia Criss, the new board members of John Cabot University’s Model United Nations Society. There positions are President, Vice President, Secretary, Fundraising Chair, Treasurer, and Press Secretary, respectively.

The board meets each Tuesday to discuss everything from upcoming fund-raising events, plus setting new agenda items.

Rome puts a price on its history

By Graciela Chahin

ROME, March 25 — For tourists and study-abroad students planning to visit the Roman Forum, the number one thing to bring is cash.

On March 10, the city began charging an entry fee to this ancient Roman neighborhood. Officials said the fee had been introduced for security purposes -- a fee will control of who goes in and will help diminish pick-pocketing and vandalism. The money charged would also go towards new excavations and restorations in the Forum and other locations.

The ticket is 11 euros for adults, 6.50 euros for European Union members between the ages of 18-24 and free for European Union members under age 18 and over 65. It is valid for two days and includes a visit to either the Colosseum or the nearby Imperial Forum on the Palatine Hill.

Henry James returns to Rome

By Emily Finkelstein

ROME, March 25 — Henry James’ novels, characters and inner turmoil were on display in John Cabot University's Aula Magna auditorium last week in a lecture entitled “Roman Fever”  hosted by literary expert Dr. Kate Brooks.

Brooks, a New York University professor of 19th and 20th century literature, spoke Tuesday to a crowd of John Cabot University students, faculty and visitors. With distinct inflections, she spoke of James’ endless love/hate relationship with the Eternal City and its effect on his works.

“I aim to convince you that Henry James is the most important novelist,” said Brooks. Listeners seemed to be either sharing Brooks’ passion or desperately attempting to keep up with it.

Politics of Climate Change event canceled

John Cabot University and the Guarini Institute regret to announce a lecture scheduled for this evening entitled “Politics of Climate Change” has been canceled as the main participant, Lord Giddens, is ill and unable to make the trip to Rome. Lord Giddens  expresses his deepest regret to all John Cabot University students, faculty, and staff and has promised to reschedule this event when he recovers.

The Guarini Institute's next lecture, “Hitler’s Journey to Italy-1938” is scheduled for March 31, 2008 at 18:30 in the Aula Magna auditorium. It will feature the screening of a documentary based on the trip Hitler made to Italy before World War II. A panel discussion with Piero Melograni, director of the film, and JCU professors will follow.

A piece of Ancient Rome returns to JCU

By Clara Peters

ROME, March 19— John Cabot University's Aula Magna auditorium took a step back into ancient history last night with gladiators and togas filling the room.

JCU's student government sponsors an international night each semester for its students.

This semester’s theme was Ancient Rome and entrance options were to either pay 4 euros, or dress in a toga. Many guests came fully dressed for the occasion gave the room more of an Ancient Roman look.

JCU greets four up-and-coming authors

By Alison Graham

ROME, March 19 - Four young writers from The New School in New York City came to John Cabot University Monday night to read excerpts from their novels in progress. Andrew Cotto, Steven Estok, Becky Ferriera and Carlos Dews entertained an audience of around 35 in Aula Magna by reading aloud from their works.

Each writer is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program in fiction writing at The New School. Beyond that, all similarities end.

Andrew Cotto, a professor at ASA College, was born in New Jersey and is the author of "The Domino Effect". He read from a novel he is currently working on, a mystery set in Brooklyn. Titled "Promised Land Blues", it is a coming-of-age story which the main character describes his life as full of “turbulence, movement, and the desire to overcome.”   

JCU alum opens Spazio Officina, an art gallery in Rome

By Clara Peters

ROME, March 17 — John Cabot University graduate Jeanne Stavropoulou Rossi opened her new gallery Spazio Officina in Rome's Piazza Bologna last week to a packed house of admirers.

Rossi is passionate about contemporary art and is striving to create a vessel of ideas -- those of her own and of others.

Spazio Officina is located in Piazza Bologna on via della Lega Lombarda 48 in what used to be a factory for construction materials in the 1950’s. The gallery is one large and spacious room, with a simple style leaving the focus on the pieces.

JCU professor enters world of "uncertainty" with book launch

Marie Bugnitz

ROME, March 17 - University of John Cabot professor Brunella Antomarini discussed her most recent book, “Pensare con l’errore” at a presentation given by the Fondazion Basso on Friday.

Antomarini, a philosophy professor at JCU, has published several articles on her study of epistemology, or “the study of knowledge”. Her most recent book is a culmination of her studies and centers around the idea that there is no such thing as certainty.

“My purpose is to show certainty is never the case…When we know something, actually, we can never know if we are right or wrong,” Antomarini told The Matthew Online.

A Friday class you won't want to miss: Cooking with Gioia

 

By Celestina Roddy

ROME, March 16 - Qualified master of wines and talented cook, Gioia Con, has done it yet again.  For the past three years Con has been instructing cooking classes at John Cabot University, and the recipes get better every time, leaving students and staff wanting more.

Friday was a gorgeous day with not a cloud in the sky when JCU students Olivia Kovacs, Heather Schechter, Alison Gramham and Katie Stinnette joined Con at the outdoor market in Campo de' Fiori where the sights and smells were a feast to the senses. 

Degree-seeking student Schechter remarked, “I can’t believe that this has been here all along and it’s the first time I’ve checked it out!”  They purchased fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices to complete the ingredients needed to make the decadent recipes.