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Why They Can\u2019t Just Put A Woman on the $20<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Time<\/em>
\nWhen Professor Cheryl Greenberg<\/strong> sat down with leaders from the Treasury Department last August to talk about the future of the $10 bill, she and nearly a dozen historians from across the country wondered why the Treasury Department was not starting with another note. \u201cWe came in saying, \u2018Can we start with the 20?’\u201d Greenberg, a History professor at Trinity College, recalled in a recent conversation with TIME. It\u2019s a question that\u2019s been raised since before the announcement in June, thanks in large part to the conversation Barbara Ortiz Howard\u2019s group, Women on 20s, started in its viral campaign aimed at banished the oft-maligned President Andrew Jackson from the bill. And it\u2019s the same question that many are asking again in response to a recent TIME story about the new note…<\/p>\n

What Redlining Did to Connecticut’s Impoverished Neighborhoods<\/strong><\/a>
\nWNPR
\nAs a small boy, Robert Cotto, Jr.<\/strong> moved with his family to Hartford, where most of his extended family was living in the city\u2019s North End. His parents were products of the capital city’s school system: Annie Fisher and Mary Hooker elementary schools before they became magnet schools, and Hartford High. As far back as he can remember, Cotto\u2019s parents — especially his mother — talked about moving up and out: up from the challenged neighborhoods where they were living, and out into the suburbs. Cotto is Trinity College\u2019s director of Urban Educational Initiatives, and an elected member of the Hartford Board of Education. He knows more than most that in Hartford and other Connecticut towns \u2013 New London, New Haven \u2013 poorly resourced neighborhoods (the kind his parents wanted to escape) didn\u2019t just happen. \u2026 Jack Dougherty<\/strong>, Trinity College professor of educational studies, has been working with other collaborators on an online book called On The Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and Its Suburbs<\/em>. The book is a go-to resource for any one who wants to learn about housing and schools, the growth of Connecticut, and how public policies often had wrote in stone a neighborhood’s bleak future…<\/p>\n

Hear What It Sounds Like When Philosopher Daniel Dennett\u2019s Brain Activity Gets Turned into Music<\/strong><\/a>
\nOpen Culture<\/em>
\n…Though we might think of music as a discrete phenomenon that stimulates isolated parts of the brain, Brownell professor of philosophy Dan Lloyd<\/strong> has a much more radical hypothesis, \u201cthat brain dynamics resemble the dynamics of music.\u201d He restates the idea in more poetic terms in an article for Trinity College: \u201cAll brains are musical\u2014you and I are symphonies.\u201d Plenty of people who can barely whistle on key or clap to a beat might disagree. But Lloyd doesn\u2019t mean to suggest that we all have musical talent, but that\u2014as he says in his talk below\u2014\u201ceverything that goes on in the brain can be interpreted as having musical form.\u201d To demonstrate his theory, Lloyd chose not a musician or composer as a test subject, but another philosopher\u2014and one whose brain he particularly admires\u2014Daniel Dennett…<\/p>\n

New \u201cNotes for Bibliophiles\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
\nFine Books & Collections<\/em>
\nEarlier this year, Richard J. Ring<\/strong> reacquainted bibliophiles with the writing of an exemplary American librarian in his book, Lawrence C. Wroth\u2019s Notes for Bibliophiles in the New York Herald-Tribune, 1937-1947<\/em> (2016). Wroth not only served as librarian at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University from 1923 to 1957, but he was a serious scholar and author as well, focused primarily on colonial American printing. During this decade before and after World War II, Wroth accepted yet another assignment: he brought rare books and bibliography to the masses in a fortnightly column for a major city newspaper. In all, he wrote 237 columns. Here selected, compiled, and introduced by Ring, the head curator and librarian of the Watkinson Library at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Wroth\u2019s columns are organized into four categories: people, exhibitions, institutions, and publications…<\/p>\n

The mysterious graffiti box explained<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Brandeis Hoot<\/em>
\nYou may have passed by the SCC last week and wondered why there was a giant wooden box. With no identifying information, it may have been puzzling to understand what the purpose of the box was\u2014the inner controversial theorist may have even guessed that it was part of a social experiment. However, the box\u2019s purpose is far less sinister. Actually, the graffiti box is part of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) Graffiti\/Youth Culture Week which took place April 11-15. … \u201cFor example, Pablo Delano<\/strong>, visiting Madeleine Haas Russell fellow at Brandeis this year and Professor of Art at Trinity College in Hartford, has photography projects on graffiti, especially in Puerto Rico. He gave a fascinating and visually stunning talk on Tuesday on how graffiti has served as a form of protest in Puerto Rico, particularly following the latest economic crisis.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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