Clark Art Hosts Talk By Poet and Scholar

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Nov. 8 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts poet, scholar, and Paris Review poetry editor Srikanth Reddy. 
 
This free event takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. A book signing follows the talk.
 
According to a press release:
 
Reddy joins novelist and the Clark's Research and Academic Program's Special Projects Coordinator Sara Houghteling to discuss his latest book, "The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures" (Wave Books, 2024). In it, Reddy refracts poems by the likes of Homer, Gertrude Stein, and Ronald Joconchnson through images such as Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Hermann Rorschach's inkblots, and Galileo's drawings of the moon. 
 
Free. Accessible seats available.

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Williams College Addressing New Bias Incidents

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Saying the college has to “resist hatred in all its forms,” the president of Williams Monday informed the campus community of recent bias incidents at the school.
 
Maud Mandel sent a college-wide email to provide details on the incidents, talk about how affected students are being supported and point out that the college’s code of conduct will be brought to bear on any members of the student body found to be responsible.
 
The recent incidents appear to be targeting both Jewish and Black students at the school.
 
“In one case, a table painted with the U.S. and Israeli flags was placed outside on the Frosh Quad,” Mandel said, referring to an area bounded by two residence halls that abut Park Street . “Over several days the table was repeatedly flipped over and damaged. It was eventually defaced with graffiti that read, ‘Free Palestine,’ ‘I love Hamas,’ ‘F— Zionists,’ ‘Colonizers,’ ‘F— AmeriKKKa’ and ‘Don't claim rednecks.’ “
 
The Star of David was crossed out on an Israeli flag at the table, and the table itself was repeatedly damaged by vandals, Mandel wrote.
 
Her email also referenced a series of reports earlier this semester involving the harassment of Black students on Main Street (Route 2), which runs through the middle of campus.
 
“[On] several occasions this semester, people in cars have yelled the N-word and other racial slurs at Black and other students crossing Route 2,” Mandel wrote. “During one of those incidents a person in the car also threw an empty plastic bottle at the students. Route 2, the main public thoroughfare through campus, has been a site of similar incidents in past years.”
 
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