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CSB Class of 2022 Commencement Celebration
No full textMay 7, 2022One-Hundred and Seventh Year Clemens Field House S.L. Haehn Campus Center Saint Joseph, MNBusiness executive LeAnne Matthews Stewart, the current chair of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University Boards of Trustees and a 1987 CSB alumna, delivered the College of Saint Benedict commencement address at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, in Clemens Field House on the CSB campus. This was the first commencement ceremony in its traditional location since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stewart addressed the 2022 CSB graduating class of 374 undergraduate women. Stewart also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in recognition of her significant achievements. The degree is awarded to those who have distinguished themselves through humanitarian and philanthropic contributions to society.
“This class, and all our students over the last two years – has adapted admirably to the challenges of the pandemic. So, I’m extremely pleased we can give them the commencement ceremony they’ve earned, here on our campus,” said Laurie Hamen, CSB transitional president. “LeAnne Stewart is an accomplished leader and an extraordinary Bennie, and her insights will serve our graduates well.”
Today Stewart is the chief financial officer of Axia Women’s Health in Voorhees, New Jersey. In 2021, she was named CFO of the Year by the Philadelphia Business Journal. Stewart graduated from CSB with a BA in accounting and earned her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in 1997. She has been on the CSB Board of Trustees since 2005. In 2012, Stewart received the S. Emmanuel Renner Award for sharing her wisdom, experiences and financial resources to allow all women to receive the benefits of a CSB education.
Regan Dolezal, a graduating political science major with a global business leadership minor from Woodbury, Minnesota, was the student commencement speaker. She is a videographer for Extending the Link, an admissions tour guide, and co-host of a podcast through the McCarthy Center called “I\u27m Glad You Asked.” Last summer, through the John Brandl Scholars Program, Dolezal interned for a non-governmental organization focused on education located in Arequipa, Peru called Helping Overcome Obstacles Peru. She recently received an award as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to the Czech Republic that fall
W.E.B Du Bois in Berlin: German Letters and The Souls of Black Folk
No full textJoin Kurt Hollender, CSB/SJU visiting assistant professor of German, for a lunch & learn webinar exploring the German intellectual tradition and the legacy of civil rights in the United States
Glory & Longing in a Suffering World: How can we understand God in the face of suffering & evil?
No full textDr. Christopher Southgate joined faculty and staff to discuss with us the perennial question: How do we understand divine presence in the context of extreme suffering? We will read a chapter written by Chris entitled “God’s Involvement in Events that Cause Great Suffering.” If there is interest, we can discuss the wider sub-discipline of the practical theology of trauma. This subject may be especially of interest to us due to our two-year experiences of living in a pandemic.
Originally trained as a biochemist, Christopher Southgate has been teaching the science-religion debate at the University of Exeter, UK, since 1993. He is best known for his study of suffering in evolution, The Groaning of Creation. More recently he has worked on the natural theology of glory and the practical theology of trauma. He is also a much-published poet
The Church as Polis
Get PDFThis paper aims to name a growing rift between belief and ethic in contemporary American society. It suggests the concept of liturgy as ‘primary theology’ and a liturgical anthropology as the solution to this rift. The paper picks up on voices from Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions to highlight an ecumenical approach in retrieving a Christian worshiping anthropology
The Influence of Emotions and Beliefs on the Comprehension of Texts About Climate Change
Get PDFEmotions and beliefs play a critical role in our everyday lives and may even interact to influence our processing of information. Prior research has proposed numerous models of emotion, belief, and comprehension processes that intersect in their methodology. The present study examines this interaction between emotions and beliefs on the comprehension of texts about the controversial topic of climate change. Given an emotion induction to elicit a positive or negative emotion, the comprehension of controversial texts about climate change is measured through the use of Inference Verification Tasks developed by Strømsø et al. (2010). It was anticipated that prior beliefs would interact with emotions to influence comprehension. In alignment with the results of Fiedler and Beier (2014), it was found that participants who held neutral beliefs about climate change that were induced to feel sad emotions performed better than happy-induced participants on questions assessing within-text inference verification. Beliefs removed the effects of emotions in the other conditions. The results provide insight into the implications of emotions and beliefs on the comprehension of controversial topics
No Happy Endings: Anna May Wong’s American Film Roles from 1931-1942
Get PDFIn the 1930s and ‘40s, shifting relations with China, Japan, and the United States drastically impacted American public sentiment towards these Asian countries. US films produced during these decades starring Anna May Wong illuminate how harmful stereotypes about Chinese culture and people were portrayed on screen. I analyze five of Wong’s films from this period to examine how the gendered and racial stereotypes within them provide a cultural lens of changing US-Chinese relations. The stereotypical archetypes of her characters, which include the formidable Dragon Lady, helpless American citizen, and Chinese war hero, demonstrate how American perceptions of China and Chinese women, personified global events. In addition to these films, I examine various interviews with and newspaper articles written by Wong to create a fuller picture of Wong’s personal views on her career, the US’s perception of China, and Hollywood’s blatant discrimination outside of these on-screen stereotypes. In looking at Wong’s “Oriental and exoticized image that filmmakers created in the mid-20th century in addition to her various interviews that sharply opposed how she was portrayed on-screen; we can gain an understanding of where and how harmful stereotypes that still exist today originated and what Wong herself thought of them
Minnesotas Hive
No full textThis is a coil pot, so everything was made by my touch. Absolutely no tools were used to assist. This piece took me a little over 8 hours in a single sitting to create
Hope
No full textI illustrated the scene of two cardinals sitting on tree branches because, spiritually, cardinals are signs of love and hope. Love and hope are what I held onto this year to help me through difficult times
On Courage
No full textThis podcast is a discussion between three philosophy capstone students that explores the virtue of courage from a philosophical angle. Courage is analyzed through the lens of the Ukraine-Russia war that was occurring at the time this podcast was created. The acts of courage by Ukrainian citizens as well as the nature of courage itself are discussed in depth