Join Boston and New York alumni and alumni-to-be on Saturday afternoon of reunion weekend with an open bar and light fare in the Chancellor's Dining Room in the ratty.

Connect with friends and peers from our two cities while giving '08 a taste of what to expect from the Brown Clubs of Boston and New York!

For more information, please visit the Facebook event page.

Volunteers are needed to cheer walkers on and provide them with refreshments at Magazine Beach in Cambridge, mile 16.5 of the walk. This checkpoint is critical to the walkers' morale as it is close to the finish line and many of the walkers are feeling the effects of having walked so far. Sign up for a shift, and join us in encouraging and cheering them on. Children ages 12 and older and their parents are welcome to help. Lunch will be provided for volunteers. Available shift times are: 10am to 2pm, 11am to 3pm, or 2pm to 5pm.

Please let me Margaret Woo (M.Woo@neu.edu) know if you are interested.

Professor Loury will argue that we Americans should recognize a kind of social responsibility for the massive expansion of the incarceration complex in American life over the past two generations. Society at large is implicated in the wrongful acts freely chosen by individual persons, because we have acquiesced in-perhaps actively supported, through our taxes and votes, words and deeds-arrangements which shape his consciousness and sense of identity in such a way that the choices he makes, which we may condemn, are nevertheless an entirely understandable response to circumstance.

Professor Loury is a distinguished academic economist who has contributed to a variety of areas in applied microeconomic theory: welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution. In addition to this scholarly work, Professor Loury is also a prominent social critic and public intellectual. His over 200 essays and reviews on racial inequality and social policy have appeared in dozens of influential journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad. Professor Lourys books include One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America; The Anatomy of Racial Inequality; and, Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK.

This talk is based on his article which appeared last summer in the Boston Review, and which can be found here: http://bostonreview.net/BR32.4/article_loury.php

During this exclusive event, join area Brown alums in a cultural exploration of Scotland, as we raise our glasses to sample the full line of The Glenlivet single malt scotch, including The Glenlivet 12 Year Old®, The Glenlivet French Oak Reserve Aged 15 Years®, The Glenlivet Nadurra 16 Year Old®, The Glenlivet 18 Year Old® and The Glenlivet Archive Aged 21 Years®. Continue your exploration as you learn more about single malt Scotch and The Glenlivet from The Glenlivet Brand Ambassador. You can also try your hand in that other uniquely Scottish export with a friendly golf competition using the City Links indoor driving simulator and custom designed satellite putting hole. Appetizers will be provided, and after sampling the full line of The Glenlivet, participants will receive branded gifts to bring home.

Space is limited to 125 participants, and pre-registration is required, so please use the link below to RSVP for this exciting event on or before February 29, 2008. Participation in this event for Brown Club Members (and guests) is FREE. The cost for non-members and each of their guests is $10 and will be collected at the door. This fee is waived if you sign up for Brown Club membership.

If you have any questions, please contact Ethan Flaherty ('93) at eflaherty@pabianrussell.com or (617) 951-3100 x309 or Joel Rosen ('75) at jrosen@rosenlawoffice.com. Once again, we thank Donald L. Saunders ('57) for his ongoing support.

RSVP for the Event

We will once again meet at Jumbo Seafood in Newton, where the event was held last year. The menu will be slightly different, and we will hold a Lucky Draw at the end of the evening. Seating is limited, so we suggest that you register early.

6:00 p.m.

Reception (Cash Bar)

6:45 p.m.

Ten Course Dinner Banquet + Lucky Draw

Cost:

$40 (including tax and tip) for Brown Club Members

$50 for Non-Members

RSVP

By Thursday February 7, 2008 online (preferred method), at

https://alumni.brown.edu/alumni/de/events/register_user.aspx?id=311

or, by mailing a check (payable to the Brown Club of Boston) to be received by February 7th to Eugene Mahr, 26 Brooks Avenue, Newtonville, MA 02460. For more information, please contact Eugene at (617) 558-0123.

Directions

Jumbo Seafood is conveniently located in Newton Centre, directly opposite the city parking facility. By T, the restaurant is just two blocks from the Green line (Riverside - D), Newton Centre stop.

Jennifer Lawless graduated from Union College with a B.A. in political science. She went on to receive an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford. A nationally recognized expert on women's involvement in politics, she is co-author (with Richard L. Fox) of the book, It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office. She has also published articles in various political science journals and has issued a policy report on the barriers that oftentimes preclude Americans from running for office. Following is a link to her recent, provocative op-ed in the Providence Journal.

Providence Journal 12/23/2007

A womans place

We have a viable female presidential candidate and a woman as Speaker of the House of Representatives, but thats not enough, says Jennifer Lawless, assistant professor of political science. Americans are still looking at womens style over substance when it comes to politics, she says in an Op-Ed.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

5:30pm-7:30pm

The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers

50 Park Plaza

Boston, MA 02116

(617) 457-2488

5:30 p.m.

Reception

6:15 p.m.

Lecture and Discussion with Professor Jennifer Lawless

Cost:

FREE for Brown Club Members

FREE for Class Leaders

$10 for Non-Members

RSVP

By January 23, 2008 online

or, by mailing a check (payable to the Brown Club of Boston) to be received by January 23, 2008 to Hanna Bailey Boyle 163 Pleasant St. Arlington, MA 02476. For more information, please contact Hanna Bailey Boyle 91 at (781) 643-2547or at hannab98@yahoo.com or Jasmine Waddell at jasmine.waddell@alumni.brown.edu.

Directions

Go to www.bostonparkplaza.com

Made possible through the generosity of Donald L. Saunders '57