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Family Day is October 13

Register online before 5pm on October 11, 2018.
Artist Michael Rakowitz ’95 at Art Basel 2018

Rakowitz recreates rooms and artifacts destroyed by war in Iraq using convenience food packaging.
Alumni Win Big at Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Three Theatre Design/Technology alumni were honored at the Creative Arts Emmys in Los Angeles.

$6.5 Million in Upgrades to Residence Halls Now Complete

Renovations include rest rooms and pathways on the Quad.
Purchase Professor and Students Featured in Chancellor’s Inauguration

Anthony Domestico, associate professor of literature, offers remarks on behalf of the faculty of SUNY and Conservatory of Music students perform.
Purchase College Named a Top Public Liberal Arts College

US News and World Report ranked Purchase among the top ten in their annual Best Colleges list.

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Piano music plays.

Regina Spektor:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Host Elisa New:

That was such a beautiful reading, Regina. In fact it wasn’t a reading; you memorized the poem. This poem is a sonnet, it begins with an eight line octet, and then moves to a six line sestet, which is a fixed, traditional form. What your reading did, was combine a warmth that sounded very contemporary with the elevation and the grandeur of this language, you humanized the poem, but you left the grandeur.

Regina Spektor:

You know I come from a culture where poetry was recited constantly throughout life. In the Soviet Union, everybody memorized poems and once you are using your voice, it’s this in-between thing, it’s conversation but it’s also elevated, it just kind of vibrates on a higher level.
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Stories that highlight the texture and dimension to the Purchase experience.

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Family Day is October 13

Artist Michael Rakowitz ’95 at Art Basel 2018

Alumni Win Big at Creative Arts Emmy Awards

$6.5 Million in Upgrades to Residence Halls Now Complete

Purchase Professor and Students Featured in Chancellor’s Inauguration

Purchase College Named a Top Public Liberal Arts College

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