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* Please note date, time and location change of Randall Kennedy event*Tracy Martin event has been canceled*Location change of David Pogue event

Immediate: February 11, 2014Media Contact: Alicia Steger 516.572.9634Email:  alicia.steger@ncc.eduncc.edu/newsreleases

The Nassau Community College Spring 2014 Cultural Program 

Garden City, NY – Nassau Community College offers the exciting events listed below during its spring 2014 Cultural Program. The programs are free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled. For more information about the NCC Cultural Program, please call 516.572.7148.*Please Note Date, Time and Location ChangeThe Prospects for Racial Decency in AmericaRandall KennedyMonday, March 24 at 12:30 p.m.Tower 11th FloorRandall Kennedy challenges us to confront our racial prejudices—whether he's talking racially and emotionally charged words or the politics of race that affect the Obama administration. This Harvard Law professor exudes sophistication, straight talk and humor.Why is There So Much Snow?Richard CohenTuesday, March 4 at 2:30 p.m.F123Richard Cohen is a professor of meteorology in NCC’s Department of Physical Sciences. He’s taught about the weather for 15 years and has been fascinated by it for over 30.*This program has been canceled for March 10 and will be rescheduledWe Are All Trayvon Tracy Martin Monday, March 10 at 2:00 p.m. CCB Multipurpose Room Since the death of his son Trayvon in 2012 due to a violent confrontation with neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, Tracy Martin has transformed personal tragedy into a call for national change.Seating for this program is limited to current NCC students and staff until 1:55 p.m.Orange is the New BlackPiper KermanMonday, March 17 at 11:00 a.m.CCB Multipurpose RoomPiper Kerman is the author of Orange is the New Black, in which she recounts the 15 months she spent in prison and upon which the popular Netflix series is based. (co-sponsored with Women’s History Month)Rescuing Paintings, Abandoning JewsDr. Rafael MedoffMonday, March 31 at 11:00 a.m.CCB 252/253Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, will explore the controversy behind George Clooney’s film The Monuments Men.What You Need to Know About Stocks and Mutual FundsJohn DespagnaTuesday, April 1 at 1:00 p.m.CCB 252/253NCC Business Professor John Despagna worked as a financial advisor for 15 years for Merrill Lynch and Citibank.Is Mobile Technology Killing Us?David PogueMonday, April 7 at 12:30 p.m.CCB Multipurpose RoomFor 13 years, Pogue was the weekly personal technology columnist for The New York Times. Today he oversees consumer technology coverage for Yahoo! and hosts NOVA’s ScienceNow. He is the author of Macs for Dummies and the creator of the Missing Manual series.The Rap Guide to EvolutionBaba BrinkmanWednesday, April 9 at 11:00 a.m.CCB Multipurpose RoomAfter a wildly successful run Off Broadway, this provocative, hilarious, and scientifically accurate hip-hop tour of modern evolutionary biology comes to Nassau Community College! (co-sponsored with the MDC Darwin’s Evolution Symposium on April 8; for symposium information contact william.moeck@ncc.edu).Balancing National Security and Individual Rights: a DialogueMichael Balboni and Norman SiegelNCC Criminal Justice Professor Janine Ferraro, moderatorMonday, April 28 at 2:00 p.m.CCB 252/253After revelations by Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning, the national debate about terrorism, the National Security Agency, and privacy has been intense and continual. Our dialogue features Michael Balboni (crisis consultant to business and government, former Homeland Security Advisor to New York State) and Norman Siegel (civil rights attorney, former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union).

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