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Susan Falzone Visits Campus for Photographers’ Lecture Series

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Falzone Susan BioPicPhotographer Susan Falzone, the next speaker in the Photographers’ Lecture Series, will visit The Williston Northampton School on Thursday, April 12.

Falzone will teach the Advanced Photography class and give a lecture, which is open to the public, at 6:30 p.m. in the Dodge Room of the Reed Campus Center.

A documentary and portrait photographer, Falzone is dedicated to making a positive difference with today’s social issues.  Falzone graduated in 2009 from the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program at the International Center of Photography in New York City, where she received a Director’s Fellowship.  She has been exhibited in various group shows in New York City, as well as the international Pingyao Photo Festival in China.

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Posted in: Arts, Events, Photographers' Lecture Series, Special Programs, Upper School, Visiting Speakers

Snap-Judgement Society: Dr. Hinduja Counsels Cyber Caution to Williston Students, Parents

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120403 0828Dr. Sameer Hinduja believes that modern technology can be useful—but only if it’s used in a responsible, positive way.

The co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center shared that message with The Williston Northampton School community this week. An evening presentation on Monday, April 2, was designed for parents, followed by a talk at all-school assembly on Tuesday morning.

In the evening, Dr. Hinduja encouraged parents to talk to their sons and daughters about online activity. He urged them to be involved and set ground rules.

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Cyberbullying Expert Sameer Hinduja to Speak to Parents and Students

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Dr. Sameer Hinduja will visit The Williston Northampton School on Monday, April 2 and Tuesday, April 3.

Dr. Hinduja, an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University and Co-Director of the Cyberbulling Research Center, works nationally and internationally with the public and private sectors to reduce online victimization and its consequences.

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“It’s Just Propaganda” and Other Media Lessons for A 7th Grade Class

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“Do you really want to think that someone with a contagious disease drank from your bottle?” read the advertisement. The ad, which used pictures of bacteria, urged readers to throw out their plastic bottles instead of recycling them. “Out with the old, in with the new!” it read.20110523 Greto 098

Very tiny print at the bottom identified a fictional plastics lobbying council as the ad creators.

Absurd? A bit. But also strangely persuasive. And that is exactly the point of the seventh grade exercise—create a piece of propaganda that is at once ridiculous and compelling.

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Posted in: Academics, Middle School, Williston Northampton News

Williston’s Director of College Counseling Visits the Middle East

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By Tim Cheney

I recently returned from a visit to NYU’s new college campus in Abu Dhabi.

How did I get there? A direct flight from Chicago—mine took me up over Greenland and Iceland, over the North Atlantic. We traveled across Norway and Sweden, over the Black Sea and along the border of Iraq and Iran. The final approach was over the Gulf before we landed in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.

While I was only in the country for a few days, I was able to experience much of what NYU’s President John Sexton has called “both a repository of a great culture and a symbol of that culture’s adaptation to modernity” during my visit.

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